Kirk Douglas portrays Jonathan Shields, a driven, highly successful producer of Hollywood pictures, who forms and regularly damages close relationships. Three such friends (an actress, a writer and a director) recall various betrayals, alongside Shields' enormous charm and success, and must then decide what good movies are worth! For his part, Douglas convincingly portrays this tornado of a man, who possibly—arguably—creates more than he destroys.
35mm, b/w, 118 min. DIR: Vincente Minnelli. SCR: Charles Schnee. CAST: Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Dick Powell, Walter Pidgeon.
