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201 LAST TANGO IN PARISUnited Artists, 1973PRINCIPAL CAST Marlon Brando, Maria SchneiderDIRECTORBernardo BertolucciPRODUCERAlbert GrimaldiSCREENWRITERS Franco Arcalli, Bernardo BertolucciBrando is an American in Paris, trying to push away the tragedy of his wife’s suicidethrough a torrid affair with a woman he hardly knows, played by Schneider. Sexualsituations had never been so explicit in a mainstream feature film.202 LAURATwentieth Century-Fox, 1944PRINCIPAL CAST Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price,Judith AndersonDIRECTOROtto PremingerPRODUCEROtto PremingerSCREENWRITERS Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty ReinhardtTierney’s beauty, David Raksin’s haunting soundtrack and Webb’s caustic WaldoLydecker are the linchpins in this arresting film noir take on detective Andrews’obsession with the portrait of a mysteriously murdered woman.203 LAWRENCE OF ARABIAColumbia, 1962PRINCIPAL CAST Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar SharifDIRECTORDavid LeanPRODUCERSSam Spiegel, David LeanSCREENWRITER Robert BoltDuring World War I, young English officer T. E. Lawrence comes to believe he cangive Arabia back to the Arabs. The movie made O’Toole a star and introduced Sharifto an international audience.204 THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLAWarner Bros., 1937PRINCIPAL CAST Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale SondergaardDIRECTORWilliam DieterlePRODUCERHal B. WallisSCREENWRITERS Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza HerczegMuni’s calm but powerful performance as the 19th century French novelist is thehighlight of this biographical film with the climactic recitation of Zola’s famous“J’accuse” letter attacking the anti-Semitism of the famous Dreyfus case.68 American Film Institute