The 77 - year - old Dern, the father of actress Laura Dern and ex-husband of her mother, actress Diane Ladd, has appeared in scores of films over the past five decades including «Marnie,» «Wild Angels,» «They Shoot Horses, Don't They?» (orlandosentinel.com)
This familiar dramatic contrivance — «Alienated strangers who seem to have nothing in common are forced together on a journey and become a sort of ersatz family» — has been the basis of scores of films, from «The Wizard of Oz» to the 2008 Iraq veteran drama «The Lucky Ones.» (csmonitor.com)
He begins by exploring the director's early life and career in his native Hungary, revealing how Curtiz shaped the earliest days of silent cinema in Europe as he acted in, produced, and directed scores of films before immigrating to the United States in 1926. (tcm.com)