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"You shouldn't wear that body." -- Attorney Ned Racine (William Hurt) to Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) in "Body Heat" (1981).

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." -- Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in "The Godfather Part III" (1990).

"Never tell me the odds." -- Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in the 1980 sequel "Star Wars: Episode V -- The Empire Strikes Back" (after C3PO tells him there was a 3,720 to 1 chance of escaping an asteroid field in the Millennium Falcon). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2CRs8PAhzg

I wouldn't say all. The U,S. military was thoroughly segregated then.

Virginia Gibson was in "Funny Face" (1957) with Fred Astaire. Fred Astaire was in "The Towering Inferno" (1974) with Paul Newman. Next: Beth Rogan.

I don't remember what Siskel and Ebert said about "First Blood," but I've always gotten a kick out of their TV review of the 1985 sequel, "Rambo: First Blood Part II." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nLfjKzLx2o

TCM On Demand for May 26, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Battleground (1949) -- Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland, Don Taylor, Bruce Cowling, James Whitmore, Douglas Fowley, Leon Ames, Herbert Anderson (billed as Guy Anderson), Thomas E. Breen, Denise Darcel, Richard Jaeckel, James Arness, Scotty Beckett, Brett King. Uncredited: Jerry Paris, George Chandler, William Self, Ivan Triesault, Tommy Noonan, Dewey Martin, Dickie Jones. Directed by William A. Wellman ("Wings," "Lafayette Escadrille"), this World War II drama about the pivotal Battle of the Bulge received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Whitmore) and Best Film Editing (John D. Dunning). It won Oscars for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay (Robert Pirosh) and Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Paul Vogel). Expires June 1, 2015.

TCM On Demand for May 26, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. From Here to Eternity (1953) -- Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, Mickey Shaughnessy, Harry Bellaver, Jack Warden, John Dennis, Merle Travis, Tim Ryan, Arthur Keegan, Barbara Morrison. Uncredited: George Reeves, Claude Akins, Robert J. Wilke, Willis Bouchey, Don Dubbins, Joan Shawlee, Douglas Henderson. This film adaptation of James Jones' 1951 novel is about American military men in Hawaii just before the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The drama won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Fred Zinnemann), Best Supporting Actor (Sinatra) and Best Supporting Actress (Reed). Lancaster, Clift and Kerr also received Oscar nominations for their lead performances. This was one of 15 films in history to receive Oscar nominations in all four acting categories. Sinatra's career-saving Oscar win -- for his performance as the ill-fated Pvt. Maggio -- inspired a subplot in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel "The Godfather" and Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film version. This film was ranked No. 52 on the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. When the list was updated in 2007, the picture dropped off completely. It features one of the most famous scenes in movie history, as the characters played by Lancaster and Kerr become passionate on a beach. The scene was lampooned by Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in a memorable parody on NBC's "Your Show of Shows." Columbia Pictures, which released the film, was not amused and sued (unsuccessfully). Expires June 1, 2015.

TCM On Demand for May 26, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 3. Patton (1970) -- George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young, Michael Strong, Carey Loftin, Albert Dumortier, Frank Latimore, Morgan Paull, Karl Michael Vogler, Bill Hickman, Patrick J. Zurica, James Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, David Bauer, John Barrie, Richard Münch, Siegfried Rauch, Michael Bates, Paul Stevens, Gerald Flood, Jack Gwillim, Edward Binns, Peter Barkworth, Lionel Murton, David Healy, Sandy McPeak, Douglas Wilmer, John Doucette, Tim Considine, Clint Ritchie, Alan MacNaughton. Uncredited voice: Paul Frees. Franklin J. Schaffner's unvarnished film biography of World War II American general George S. Patton, Jr. received seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film always will be remembered for Scott's riveting portrayal of the famed military officer -- and the veteran actor's decision to decline the Oscar for Best Actor. In its 1998 survey of the 100 greatest movies of all time, the American Film Institute ranked the film No. 89. In the AFI's updated 2007 survey, it dropped off the list. Scott's Patton is a bundle of contradictions. For instance, he is alternately religious and profane. When a member of the clergy asks him if he finds the time to read the Bible by his bedside, the general replies, "I sure do. Every ******* day." And he is a disciplinarian who frequently ignores orders by his superiors. When the military brass instructs Patton not to take the town of Messina during the Allied invasion of Sicily, what do you think he does? Malden co-stars as Patton's friend and onetime subordinate Army officer Omar N. Bradley, the low-key commander who would become America's last five-star general. The differences in their styles is readily apparent. While Patton was vain and flamboyant, the nondescript Bradley earned a reputation as "the G.I.'s general." During a battle scene in the film, a soldier complains, "What silly son of a ***** is in charge of this operation?" Bradley, whom the soldier doesn't recognize, replies, "I don't know, but they oughta hang him." Scott was never complimentary of the Academy Awards, and once referred to the ceremony as "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons." When he earned his first-ever nomination, a 1959 Best Supporting Actor nod for "Anatomy of a Murder," Scott apparently tolerated recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It was a different story two years later, when he again was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, this time for the 1961 drama "The Hustler." He declined the nomination because of his dislike of Oscar competition and campaigns. It all came to a head in the spring of 1970, when Scott began receiving critical praise for "Patton." Appearing on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," Scott was asked what he would do if he received another Oscar nomination. The actor responded that he would decline it, too. Sure enough, when the 1970 Oscar field was revealed several months later, Scott received a nomination for Best Actor. He sent a telegram to the Academy, declaring his intention to decline the award and not attend the ceremony. True to his word, Scott was not in attendance on April 15, 1971, when presenter Goldie Hawn announced that he had won the Best Actor award. Interestingly, Scott was nominated for Best Actor a year later for his performance in "The Hospital," a 1971 black comedy by Paddy Chayefsky. The veteran actor didn't show up that time, either. In addition to its Oscar wins for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, the biopic received awards for Best Original Screenplay (shared by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North), Best Film Editing (Hugh S. Fowler), Best Sound (Douglas Williams, Don Bassman) and Best Art Direction (Urie McCleary, Gil Parrondo, Antonio Mateos, Pierre-Louis Thévenet). The film also earned nominations for Best Cinematography (Fred J. Koenekamp), Best Visual Effects (Alex Weldon) and Best Music, Original Score (Jerry Goldsmith). Memorable quote: "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." -- Patton during the iconic address to his troops at the beginning of the film. Memorable dialogue: Lt. Col. Charles R. Codman (played by Stevens): You know, General, sometimes the men don't know when you're acting. Patton: It's not important for them to know. It's only important for me to know. Memorable scenes: In December 1944, Patton's attempt to rescue besieged American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge is stalled by snowstorms. He orders a Third Army chaplain (Murton) to write a prayer for good weather ASAP. Patton later reads the prayer at night while hauntingly beautiful yet brutal battle scenes are shown on the screen. When he finishes, the next scene shows American planes flying under clear skies in the morning. Patton's reaction: "Cod, get me that chaplain. He stands in good with the Lord, and I want to decorate him." This film marked the final screen appearance of Edwards, the noteworthy African-American actor who appears as Patton's personal aide, Sgt. William George Meeks. Edwards, who earned a reputation for playing non-stereotyped black characters in such films as "Home of the Brave" (1949), "Battle Hymn" (1957) and "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), died of a heart attack on January 4, 1970. The film was released four months after his death. The dog that appears as Patton's pet bull terrier Willy received a screen credit under the name Abraxas Aaran. In 1986, Scott reprised his most famous character in the CBS TV-movie "The Last Days of Patton." Directed by Delbert Mann ("Marty"), the sequel focused on the general's desperate struggle for life after a December 1945 automobile accident in postwar Germany. Expires June 1, 2015.

Christine Lahti was in "...And Justice for All" (1979) with Jack Warden. Jack Warden was in "The Verdict" (1982) with Paul Newman. Next: Annabeth Gish.

You meant "libelous," which deals with a printed statement. Slander is a spoken offense.

Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper. I believe Nesmith himself came up with the idea that launched MTV.

I hate to hear this. I hope this isn't another long summer of film star casualties: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/25/omar-sharif-alzheimers-lawrence-of-arabia

Stiller and Meara, who had been married since 1954, displayed great chemistry in interviews. Here's one from msnbc's "Morning Joe" program on May 18, 2012, in which they recalled how they met:

Anne Meara developed into a fine actress as evidenced by her short-lived 1975 drama series "Kate McShane," which lasted only a couple of months on CBS. For her performances as an attorney, she received a 1975-1976 Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Jerry Stiller also dabbled in dramatic roles, most notably as a transit cop in the 1974 suspense thriller "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three." It's likely that their dramatic roles also inspired their son Ben Stiller, who appears in non-comedic projects from time to time. Meara remembered "Kate McShane" in an archival interview for EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG:

TCM On Demand for May 25, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Grand Illusion (1937) -- Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Maurice Dalio, Julien Carette, Georges Péclet, Werner Florian, Jean Dasté, Sylvain Itkine, Gaston Modot. France's Jean Renoir directed and co-wrote (with Charles Spaak) this World War I drama, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture of 1938. It has been called one of the greatest movies of all time. The film stars Gabin and Fresnay as French pilots who are shot down and confined to a German prisoner-of-war camp. They are later moved to a supposedly inescapable fortress, but we all know that you can't keep determined POWs down! Austrian-born film director and actor Von Stroheim ("Greed") co-stars as a gentlemanly German officer who believes in the old ways of conducting war. In a 1999 review of the film, the late Roger Ebert credited the movie -- titled "La Grande Illusion" in French -- for influencing both the tunnel-digging sequences in "The Great Escape" (1963) and the patriotic singing of "La Marseillaise" in "Casablanca" (1943). "It's not a movie about a prison escape, nor is it jingoistic in its politics; it's a meditation on the collapse of the old order of European civilization, " Ebert wrote. "Perhaps that was always a sentimental upper-class illusion, the notion that gentlemen on both sides of the lines subscribed to the same code of behavior. Whatever it was, it died in the trenches of World War I." Ebert, who included the film on his list of "Great Movies," also details the miraculous survival of Renoir's film during World War II, despite the odds: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-grand-illusion-1937 Dalio, who starred with Modot in Renoir's other great film of the pre-World War II decade -- "Rules of the Game" (1939) -- plays a French POW who happens to be a member of a wealthy Jewish family. Parlo (1906-1971), a German actress who occasionally appeared in French and American movies (see: "L'Atalante"), became an inspiration for Madonna in 1992. The pop singer created a character she called "Mistress Dita" and used it in her racy album "Erotica" (and the title song's music video), as well as her controversial and explicit photo-book "Sex." Expires May 31, 2015. 2. Men in War (1957) -- Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine, Nehemiah Persoff, Vic Morrow, James Edwards, L.Q. Jones, Scott Marlowe, Adam Kennedy, Race Gentry, Walter Kelley, Anthony Ray, Robert Normand, Michael Miller, Victor Sen Yung, Vernon Scott. Anthony Mann ("Strategic Air Command," "The Heroes of Telemark") directed this war drama about United States soldiers in jeopardy during the Korean conflict in 1950. Ryan stars as Lt. Benson, whose platoon is stranded near a hillside and cut off from communications with division headquarters. Despite the nearby presence of North Korean troops, Benson elects to lead his unit to Hill 465 -- the last known location of HQ personnel. The movie's screenplay was credited to Academy Award winner Philip Yordan ("Broken Lance"), who served as a front for the real screenwriter, Ben Maddow, who had been blacklisted during the McCarthy era. The source material for the film was the 1949 novel "Day Without End" by Van Van Praag. The book was later retitled "Combat," which happened to be the title of actor Morrow's 1960s ABC television series about American G.I.s in World War II Europe. Mann reunited with Ryan, Aldo Ray and Morrow for the 1958 film version of Erskine Caldwell's novel "God's Little Acre." Expires May 31, 2015.

TCM On Demand for May 24, 2015 The following features are now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Twelve O'Clock High (1949) -- Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger, Robert Arthur, Paul Stewart, John Kellogg, Robert Patten, Lee MacGregor, Sam Edwards, Roger Anderson. Uncredited: Kenneth Tobey, Joyce McKenzie, Bert Freed, Paul Picerni, Russ Conway, Don Gordon, Harry Lauter. Jagger received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in this World War II drama about fictional American bomber crews operating out of England. Also nominated for Best Picture and Best Actor (Peck), the film won a second Oscar for Best Sound (Thomas Moulton, 20th Century-Fox Studio). The production was directed by Henry King ("The Song of Bernadette," "The Snows of Kilamanjaro"), based on a story and screenplay by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, Jr., who wrote the 1948 novel of the same title. Fifteen years after the movie's release, ABC began airing a television series inspired by the film. It also was titled "Twelve O'Clock High" and ran for three seasons (1964-1967). Season 1 starred Robert Lansing as General Savage, the fictional character played by Peck in the movie version. Lansing, whose character was killed in action in the first episode of Season 2, was replaced by Paul Burke, who played Colonel Joe Gallagher. Expires May 30, 2015. 2. Westbound (1959) -- Randolph Scott, Virginia Mayo, Karen Steele, Michael Dante, Andrew Duggan, Michael Pate, Wally Brown, John Daheim, Walter Barnes. Uncredited: Peter Brown. Directed by Budd Boetticher, this Civil War-era Western stars Scott as Capt. John Hayes, a Union officer assigned a special mission during the final stages of the conflict. He must transport much-needed gold buillon from California by stagecoach. Meanwhile, he must find a way to elude Confederate Army sympathizers intent on sabotaging his journey. This was one of seven screen collaborations between Boetticher and Scott between 1956 and 1960. The others: "Seven Men from Now" (1956), "Decision at Sundown" (1957), "The Tall T" (1957), "Buchanan Rides Alone" (1958), "Ride Lonesome" (1959) and "Comanche Station" (1960). Expires May 30, 2015.

TCM On Demand for May 23, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Hamlet (1948) -- Sir Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie, Norman Wooland, Sir Felix Aylmer, Terence Morgan, John Laurie, Esmond Knight, Sir Anthony Quayle, Niall MacGinnis, Harcourt Williams, Patrick Troughton, Tony Tarver, Peter Cushing, Stanley Holloway, Russell Thorndike. Uncredited: Sir Christopher Lee, Patrick Macnee, Desmond Llewelyn. Olivier's film adaption of Shakespeare's tragic play earned four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The legendary British actor also was nominated for his direction of the drama, but the award went to John Huston for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." In addition, the picture won Oscars for Best Black-and-White Art Direction/Set Decoration (Roger K. Furse, Carmen Dillon) and Best Black-and-White Costume Design (Furse). Some noteworthy items about the film's Oscar awards and nominations: This was the first British film -- and non-American production -- to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It also was the first adaptation of a Shakespeare play to win the top Oscar. Among the other nominated films in the category: "The Red Shoes" by the British team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Olivier's wins for Best Picture (he produced the film) and Best Actor provided him with the only competitive Academy Awards of his career. He also was nominated as Best Actor for his performances in "Wuthering Heights" (1939), "Rebecca" (1940), "Henry V" (1944), "Richard III" (1955), "The Entertainer" (1960), "Othello" (1965), "Sleuth" (1972) and "The Boys from Brazil" (1978). He received a Best Supporting Actor nomination for a villainous turn in "Marathon Man" (1976). He also was presented honorary Oscars in 1945 and 1979. He became the first person ever to direct himself to an acting win. The feat was duplicated 50 years later by Italian filmmaker Roberto Benigni, who won the Best Actor Oscar for the 1998 film he directed -- "Life Is Beautiful" (1998). No one has ever won Best Director and Best Actor awards for the same film. During his career, Oliver became the first of three persons to receive Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. The two others: George Clooney and Sir Kenneth Branagh. Simmons, who was 19 when the movie was filmed, received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance as Ophelia. She became a major star because of the film's success and began making pictures in Hollywood as a result. Two decades later, she received a 1969 Best Actress nomination for "The Happy Ending." The film also was nominated for its score by Sir William Walton. He had been nominated previously for his musical contributions to Olivier's "Henry V." Memorable non-Shakespeare quote: "This is the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind." -- From Olivier's opening narration. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are missing: Olivier, who adapted the movie's screenplay from Shakespeare's tragedy, cut out the two characters as well as a third -- Fortinbras, the crown pince of Norway. Expires May 29, 2015.

Chris Messina was in "Julie & Julia" (2009) with Stanley Tucci. Stanley Tucci was in "Road to Perdition" (2002) with Paul Newman. Next: David Letterman.

TCM On Demand for May 23, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 2. The Stranger (1946) -- Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Richard Long, Konstantin Shayne, Byron Keith, Billy House, Martha Wentworth. This post-World War II drama earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Motion Picture Story (Victor Trivas). Directed by Welles, who also plays the title character, the film is about a mysterious school instructor in an American small town. Expires May 29, 2015.

Has Robert Wagner ever been featured during a Summer Under the Stars period? He's headlined or appeared in enough noteworthy movies to merit the attention. And I'd love to see "Prince Valiant" again! Plus Wagner could introduce and provide background about his own movies if Robert Osborne is still out.

TCM On Demand for May 22, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) -- Sir Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Shirley Knight, Karl Malden, Shirley Jones, Slim Pickens, Veronical Hamel, Angela Cartwright, Mark Harmon, Paul Picerni, Patrick Culliton, Dean Ferrandini, Disaster film producer Irwin Allen's continuation of "The Poseidon Adventure" takes place not long after the ordeals of the 1974 film. Caine stars as Mike Turner, a British tugboat captain who lost his entire cargo in during the tidal wave that capsized the S.S. Poseidon on New Year's Eve. When he spots the overturned vessel after the rescue of six survivors, Turner plans an exploratory salvage mission as a means of recouping his losses. He soon enters an uneasy alliance with Dr. Stefan Svevo (Telly Savalas), who heads a Greek team of medics responding to the Poseidon disaster, Field and Malden play members of Turner's crew who accompany Turner in his salvaging efforts. Directed by Allen, this film was released a little more than two months after "Norma Rae," the 1979 drama for which Field received her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Expires May 28, 2015. 2. Juggernaut (1974) -- Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Shirley Knight, Sir Ian Holm, Clifton James, Roy Kinnear, Caroline Mortimer, Mark Burns, John Stride, Freddie Jones, Julian Glover, Jack Watson, Roshan Seth, Rebecca Bridge, Simon MacCorkindale Simon MacCorkindale. Uncredited: Cyril Cusack, Sir Michael Hordern. Richard Lester -- best known for lighter fare such as The Beatles romps "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) and "Help!" (1965) -- directed this thriller focusing on a transatlantic ocean liner. A mysterious blackmailer (known only as "Juggernaut) tells British authorities he has placed several devices aboard the "Britannic," a cruise ship bound for the United States. He threatens to ignite the explosives unless he is paid the sum of £500,000. Meanwhile, a crack Navy bomb squad -- headed by Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon (Harris) -- is rushed into action to locate and defuse the explosives. Hopkins co-stars as a Scotland Yard superintendent who tries to work on the case, although his wife and daughter (Mortimer, Bridges) are aboard the ship. Kinnear, who plays ocean liner's social director, was a Lester favorite. He co-starred in several films of the director's films, including "Help!" and the "Three Musketeers" series. Kinnear died at the age of 54 on September 20, 1988, the day after a horse-riding accident during the filming of "The Return of the Musketeers." Expires May 28, 2015. 3. The Last Voyage (1960) -- Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Woody Strode, Jack Kruschen, Joel Marston, George Furness, Richard Norris, Marshall Kent, Andrew Hughes, Robert Martin, Bill Wilson, Tammy Marihugh. Stack and Malone, who gained Academy Award recognition as headstrong Texas siblings in "Written on the Wind" (1957), co-star as a married couple aboard a troubled ocean liner. Sanders co-stars as the captain of the ship, who tries to maintain calm although everything around him is falling apart. Expires May 28, 2015.

TCM On Demand for May 21, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987) -- Johnny Carson hosts this examination of the life and career of Academy Award winner Stewart (1908-1997), who appeared in almost 100 films over seven decades. Written by John L. Miller and directed by David Heeley, the documentary aired originally as an installment of the PBS series "Great Performances." Expires May 27, 2015. 2. Johnny Guitar (1954) -- Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine, Royal Dano, Frank Ferguson, Paul Fix, Rhys Williams, Ian MacDonald. Uncredited: Denver Pyle, Sheb Wooley, Will Wright. Directed by Nicholas Ray ("Rebel Without a Cause," "In a Lonely Place"), this highly regarded Western stars Crawford as Vienna, a controversial saloon operator in an Arizona town. Her dream is for the railroad to come through the town and improve its fortunes. But her enemies -- most notably local cattle rancher Emma Small (McCambridge) -- are determined to see her ruined first. Vienna's salvation may come in the form of an old flame and onetime gunfighter named Johnny "Guitar" Logan (Hayden), who arrives in town. Expires May 27, 2015.

TCM On Demand for May 20, 2015 The following feature is now available on TCM On Demand for a limited time: 1. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) -- Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder, Evans Evans. Producer and leading man Beatty's landmark film about the infamous bank robbers of the 1930s received 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director (Arthur Penn). It also earned Oscar nominations for all five actors who played members of the Barrow Gang -- Beatty, Dunaway, Hackman, Pollard and Parsons. The film won awards for Best Supporting Actress (Parsons, as Clyde's excitable sister-in-law Blanche) and Best Cinematography (Burnett Guffey). The movie's original screenplay was written by Esquire magazine luminaries David Newman and Robert Benton, who were nominated for Oscars for the film. They later were credited (with Newman's wife Leslie and Mario Puzo) for the screenplay of "Superman" (1978). Benton, who was an Esquire art director before turning to moviemaking, went on to win three Academy Awards. He received Oscars for directing Best Picture winner "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979) and adapting its screenplay from the 1977 novel by Avery Corman. He also won the 1984 Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Places in the Heart," which he also directed. Robert Towne, who later won a 1974 Oscar for his "Chinatown" original screenplay, is listed as a consultant. He did final revisions to Newman and Benton's screenplay but did not receive a screenwriting credit. Although the film drew widespread attention -- and criticism -- because of its emphasis on violence, the critic Pauline Kael raved about it in The New Yorker as "the most excitingly American American movie since 'The Manchurian Candidate'." "The audience is alive to it," she continued in her 9,000-word piece. "Our experience as we watch it has some connection with the way we reacted to movies in childhood: with how we came to love them and to feel they were ours -- not an art that we learned over the years to appreciate but simply and immediately ours." Cover Credit: ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG In a December 8, 1967 cover story, Time magazine recognized the movie's significance: "In both conception and execution, 'Bonnie and Clyde' is a watershed picture, the kind that signals a new style, a new trend. An early example of this was 'Birth of a Nation', which still stands alone; it gave American cinema an epic sense of the nation's history. Orson Welles' 'Citizen Kane' was another watershed film, with its stunning use of deep-focus photography and its merciless character analysis of that special U.S. phenomenon, the self-made mogul. John Ford's 'Stagecoach' brought the western up from the dwarfed adolescence of cowboy-and-Injun adventures to the maturity and stature of a legend. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's 'Singin' in the Rain' proved again the ingenuity of U.S. moviemakers to bring fresh style to the format of musical comedy, which, like jazz, remains an authentically American art form." And Roger Ebert, in his first months as film critic of The Chicago Sun-Times, gave the picture four stars and called it "a milestone in the history of American movies, a work of truth and brilliance." He continued: "It is also pitilessly cruel, filled with sympathy, nauseating, funny, heartbreaking, and astonishingly beautiful. If it does not seem that those words should be strung together, perhaps that is because movies do not very often reflect the full range of human life." In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked the film No. 27 on its list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. When AFI updated the list in 2007, the film dropped to No. 42. Memorable quote: "This here's Miss Bonnie Parker, and I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks." -- Clyde's forthright introduction to an impoverished family was ranked No. 41 on AFI's 2005 list of the Top 100 movie quotes of all time. Meeting cute: In the movie's opening scene, Bonnie lolls naked in her bedroom in her West Dallas home when she notices Clyde checking out her mother's car outside. She dresses hurriedly and accuses him of trying to steal the auto. He eventually gains her confidence, offers to buy her a soft drink, and accompanies her downtown. While she waits outside, he sticks up a grocery store and returns with a handful of stolen money. "Hey, what's your name anyhow?" she asks as they prepare to flee in a stolen car. "Clyde Barrow," he replies. "Hi, I'm Bonnie Parker," she says. "I'm pleased to meet you." A sound mix tale: Beatty once told a story about how he wanted the gunfire in this film to sound like the explosive shots in George Stevens' classic 1953 Western "Shane." He even received pointers from Stevens, who explained that the noise was created by firing a shotgun into a garbage can. At an important screening in London in 1967, however, Beatty noticed a problem with the sound mix, so he hurried up to the projection booth for some answers. "And there's a man who's shocked to see the actor [in the movie] in his booth," Beatty recalled in 2007. "And he said, 'Gee, I really have to tell you something about this picture, kid...They really did it to you on this mix. It's really awful. But I've saved you.' " The projectionist then showed Beatty a chart with reminders about when to turn down the film's sound for gunshots and music cues. "He said, 'You know, I haven't seen a picture this badly mixed since 'Shane'." The movie's influence on music: Although Charles Strouse composed the film's music score, what movie lovers remember most is "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," the bluegrass instrumental by country artists Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. The song, originally released in 1949, gained notoriety and a wider audience because of the film...British singer Georgie Fame had a 1968 hit on both sides of the Atlantic with "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde." It went to No. 1 in the United Kingdom and rose as high as No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States...Six years before they married in 2008, Jay Z and Beyoncé did a recording and music video titled "03 Bonnie & Clyde," in which they took on the roles of bank robbers on the run from authorities. More Beatty: This was the first film produced by the actor, who once admitted he was afraid to direct it himself. He went on to become an accomplished quadruple threat with 14 Academy Award nominations as a producer, director, actor and screenwriter. He won the 1981 Best Director Oscar for "Reds." his epic film biography of the early 20th-century journalist John Reed. What's in a name?: When Canadian actor Mike Fox set out to become a member of the Screen Actors Guild, he discovered there already was a Michael Fox registered with the union. Since he didn't want to use his middle name Andrew or middle initial -- the thought of being Michael A. Fox horrified him -- he came up with a solution. Since he admired Pollard, who plays C.W. Moss in "Bonnie and Clyde," he borrowed the veteran actor's middle initial and became Michael J. Fox. Expires May 26, 2015.

Although the Guinness Book of World Records has named Samuel L. Jackson the highest-grossing actor in the history of movies (his pictures are nearing the $10 billion level worldwide), Oldman has been in the running for the title. He's starred in several noteworthy tentpole projects, including the "Dark Knight" trilogy, the "Harry Potter" series and the latest reboot of the "Planet of the Apes" saga. Of course, even he couldn't save the recent flop "Child 44": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMPfoopDXw8