vincente minnelli take the audience on a tour of the how to make movie idea in the bad and the beautiful and a heartfelt and poignant story about a ruthless producer try to get back into the position of successful producer with the help of three people he launch career for . unfortunately and they all be tragically affect by him in one way or another and so they all refuse . if anything and this movie show how quickly your fortune can turn in the movie business . jonathan shield and play remarkably by kirk douglas and go from poor and unknown movie producer and to become one of the rich and most powerful men in hollywood . this film remind me of a sort of mix between sunset blvd . and ace in the hole and ironically the latter be a film in which douglas also star in and play the same type of character . take a rather unflinching look at the inner working of film making and the consequence that come about from such a lavish lifestyle and minnelli paint a bleak portrait of the people we think have it all . it may not be a powerful or well make a sunset blvd and but it still have a great quality to it that make it one of the good work of vincente minnelli .