The Vintage is a 1957

1957 in film

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue-Awards:...

 crime drama film made by MGM, and directed by Jeffrey Hayden

Jeffrey Hayden

Jeffrey Hayden is an American television director and producer. He has been married since 1951 to Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint.-Television career:...

. The screenplay was written by Michael Blankfort

Michael Blankfort

Michael Blankfort was a Jewish-American screenwriter, author and playwright. He served as a front for the blacklisted Albert Maltz on the Academy Award-nominated screenplay of Broken Arrow . Among his own screenplays were The Juggler and The Caine Mutiny...

, based on novel by Ursula Keir. The film stars Pier Angeli

Pier Angeli

Pier Angeli was an Italian-born television and film actress. Her American cinematographic debut was in the starring role of the 1951 film Teresa, in which she won a Golden Globe Award...

, Mel Ferrer

Mel Ferrer

Mel Ferrer was an American actor, film director and film producer.-Early life:Ferrer was born Melchor Gastón Ferrer in Elberon, New Jersey, of Catalan and Irish descent. His father, Dr. José María Ferrer , was born in Cuba, was an authority on pneumonia and served as chief of staff of St....

, John Kerr

John Kerr (actor)

John Kerr is an American actor from a family rooted in British and Broadway stage, and a lawyer.- Early life :Kerr's parents, Geoffrey Kerr and June Walker, were both stage and film actors, and his grandfather was Frederick Kerr, a famed British trans-Atlantic character actor in the period...

, Michèle Morgan

Michèle Morgan

Michèle Morgan is a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades.- Career :Morgan was born Simone Renée Roussel in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, a western suburb of Paris....

 and Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel

Theodore Meir Bikel is a character actor, folk singer and musician. He made his film debut in The African Queen and was nominated for an Academy award for his supporting role as Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones ....

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Cast

• Pier Angeli as Lucienne
• Mel Ferrer as Giancarlo Barandero
• John Kerr as Ernesto Barandero
• Michèle Morgan as Léone Morel
• Theodore Bikel as Eduardo Uribari
• Leif Erickson
  Leif Erickson
  Leif Erickson was an American film and television actor.-Background:Leif Erickson was born William Wycliffe Anderson in Alameda, California. His father was commander of a fleet of ships and his mother was a noted newspaperwoman and writer...
  
   as Louis Morel
• Jack Mullaney
  Jack Mullaney
  Jack Mullaney was an American actor, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mullaney acted in several television series and films throughout his career....
  
   as Etienne Morel
• Joe Verdi as Uncle Ton Ton

Music

The score for the film was composed and conducted by David Raksin

David Raksin

David Raksin was an American composer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music." One of his earliest film assignments was as assistant to Charlie Chaplin in the composition of the score...

. Additional source music included guitar solos performed by actor Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel

Theodore Meir Bikel is a character actor, folk singer and musician. He made his film debut in The African Queen and was nominated for an Academy award for his supporting role as Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones ....

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Raksin's music from the film received its premiere release, in any format, on cd in 2009 on Film Score Monthly

Film Score Monthly

Film Score Monthly is an online magazine founded by editor-in-chief and executive producer Lukas Kendall in June 1990 as The Soundtrack Correspondence List...

records.