Brett Morgan and Nanette Burstein have put together a fascinating portrait of Hollywood mogul, Robert Evans. The documentary skips over his childhood to his short career as a rising star in films. He was discovered poolside by Norma Shearer who chose him to play her wunderkind husband, Irving Thalberg, in "Man of a Thousand Faces". He went on to the colorful role of the bullfighter in Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises." Darryl Zanuck cast him against the desires of Hemingway, Ava Gardner and Tyrone Power who wanted a name actor in the role. When Zanuck filmed his first scene in the bullring he liked what his saw. Hence, the famous line: "The kid stays in the picture." Evans knew from that day on what he really wanted to do was what Zanuck was doing, make films, not act in them. His next role in "The Fiend that Walked the West" just solidified his resolve to drop the acting career and move into the behind the scenes part of movie making. The middle part of the story relates his rise to fame as the head of Paramount studios (Love Story, Romeo and Juliet, Harold and Maude and The Godfather) and as independent filmmaker (Chinatown). His subsequent fall from grace is the final third of the tale. The film is creatively told using constant music, film and newsreel clips, and photographs all ingeniously intertwined. Of course, the best part is the narration which is provided by Robert Evans himself. The voiceover is derived from Evans audio book of the biograpphy from which the film is adapted. I went in expecting to be bored. I was riveted for an hour and a half to this classic story of the rise and fall of a Hollywood legend.