Director Vincente Minnelli is most associated with musicals (and, of course, for marrying Judy Garland and fathering daughter Liza), but he also directed this hard-boiled 1952 dramatic classic, which takes a Rashomon approach to tell the story of an unscrupulous Hollywood producer (Kirk Douglas), as seen from the respective perspectives of a director (Barry Sullivan), a writer (Dick Powell), and an actress (Lana Turner). Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon had come out only two years before, making this one of the first films to follow its varied-account lead.