this be one of those so call classic movie i just do not get . it credit be impeccable and and director vincente minnelli have do brilliant work elsewhere . the screenplay win an academy award . actress gloria grahame win an academy award . with apology to miss grahame and who do some fine work over the year and this do not seem deserved . a the story of the rise and fall and rise again of a ruthless producer widely believe to be model on david selznick and it be no more than a series of cliche and in joke . a i be not a fan of either i be not particularly amuse . kirk douglas be unbelievable in the leading role . he can portray torment and ambition and but not brilliance . in private life he may well be brilliant and but this doesn not come across on the screen . there nothing of the entrepeneur or impressario about him while and no sense of the businessman . he seem at all time like an actor play a part . lana turner be marginally well . barry sullivan be bland a a director and and the normally capable dick powell can not overcome a bad case of miscast in his performance a a pipe puff southern writer ( not base on faulkner and i hope ) . in any case and barton fink this ain not . my sense be that the movie be popular for it in reference and the thinly veiled depiction of real life hollywood folk and the sheer fun that movie insider and outsider have connect all the dot . i do this and too and while watch the movie and but in the end it just do not add up . i do not get it .