A noir mystery about two half-brothers who get entangled in mistaken identity, Suture (1993), the debut feature of San Francisco filmmakers Scott McGehee and David Siegel, has little to say, but says it with panache. Vincent Towers (Michael Harris), the primary suspect in the murder of his wealthy father, plants evidence on his half-brother Clay Arlington (Dennis Haysbert), by staging a car explosion in which Clay is the intended victim. Vincent switches identities with Clay, who miraculously survives, though he's left disfigured and amnesiac.

Whit Stillman has written, produced and directed three films: Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco, all ensemble pieces with large number of characters. Notable for their Ivy League intellectualism, all three are about a rarified type, the privileged upper class members who marginalized themselves through self-involvement. Stillman makes cerebral comedies, in which relentlessly verbal characters are expressed in and by ideas, and are engaged in circular talk peppered with self mockery.

The product of a small town, Winterest, Iowa, and growing up in Glendale, California, Wayne was more popular in rural America. Rural areas have always provided better markets for Westerns than urban centers. His widest appeal was probably in the Mid-West, due both to the nature of his movies and his conservative politics. Director Raoul Walsh's consolation, when Wayne was disturbed by the nasty write-ups for his movies in the East Coast, was: “Never mind New York. You're a big hit in Cincinnati.”