Susan Hayward won a Best Actress Academy Award for playing a "loose woman" (the word prostitute is never used, and at one point when it's almost used someone cuts her off before she can say it) who is dragged into a murder rap and through a series of poor choices, one which is a major plot twist, is sentenced to death.

Cool jazz score, wonderful sound design and the bleak black-and-white cinematography enhance an otherwise dry tale. The highlight of…

It's hard to imagine the making of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. It's so big in scope, and the locations and shooting conditions had to be beyond rough yet out of it comes this timeless masterpiece.

I've viewed this picture many times, and this time I noticed more than ever just how small everything looks in the desert. David Lean does an amazing job of just making everything and everyone look so insignificant, and almost swallowed up by the inhospitable surroundings.

Lawrence,…