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Hollywood Story is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Castle released in USA on 1 june 1951 with Richard Conte
Hollywood Story (1951)
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Add to a movie listHollywood Story is a 1951 American thriller film noir directed by William Castle, and starring Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan and Henry Hull.
The film was an attempt by Universal Pictures to take advantage of the success of Paramount's Sunset Boulevard which was released the previous year. The plot is based on the notorious murder of silent movie director William Desmond Taylor. While Hollywood Story reaches a fictional conclusion, it follows the circumstances of the real-life event closely.
Upon the release of the film, Universal promoted the appearance of several once famous silent screen celebrities. It came to light that the ones with speaking parts had received just $55 per day of shooting for their roles. Others, like Elmo Lincoln, the first screen Tarzan, were used as non-speaking extras and received only $15 per day.
^ Hollywood Story at the American Film Institute Catalog.
^ Lyons, Arthur (2000). Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir!. Da Capo Press. p. 99-100. ISBN 978-0-306-80996-5.
Synopsis
New York theatrical producer Larry O'Brien (Conte) plans to found a motion picture company in Hollywood. He buys an old studio which was unused since the days of silent movies. There he's shown the office where a famous director was murdered twenty years earlier. Although there were many suspects the case hasn't been solved. O'Brian becomes fascinated by the subject and decides to make a film based on the case. To this end he begins interviewing the surviving participants and soon gets into danger himself. In the end it turns out that the murderer is the victim's jealous brother.Actors
Richard Conte
(Larry O'Brien)
Julie Adams
(Sally Rousseau / Amanda Rousseau)
Richard Egan
(Police Lt. Bud Lennox)
Henry Hull
(Philip Ferrara / Vincent St. Clair)
Fred Clark
(Sam Collyer)
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