West Side Story (film) Wise's dazzling direction, Leonard Bernstein's score, and Stephen Sondheim's lyrics, "West Side Story" remains perhaps the most iconic of all the Shakespeare adaptations to visit the big screen." The film earned $19,645,000 in North American rentals. Because of profit participation, United Artists earned a profit of $2.5 million on the film. Its ten Academy Awards make it the musical film with the most Academy wins, including Best Picture. Three other films ("Ben-Hur", "Titanic" and "") won 11 Oscars, but they were not musical films. Awards American Film Institute lists: The film's cast appeared and was honored at the 50th anniversary
The Bat (1959 film) it's all done in a by-the-numbers manner, there's more than enough here to entertain whodunit fans". In a contemporary review of the film, "The New York Times" praised Moorehead's "good, snappy performance" and Crane Wilbur's direction. The Bat (1959 film) The Bat is an American mystery film from 1959 starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. It is the fourth film adaptation of the story, which began as a 1908 novel "The Circular Staircase" by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which she later adapted (with Avery Hopwood) into the 1920 play "The Bat". The first movie version of the play was the 1926