After Gregory Peck and Jean Simmons rode off into the sunset, I checked my voice mail.

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Previous recipients of the BIFF Lifetime Achievement Award include John Hurt, Jean Simmons, Barbara Windsor, Claire Bloom, Ken Loach, Jack Cardiff and Richard Attenborough.

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Under George Cukor's direction for a fourth and final time, Tracy plays a blustery paterfamilias whose strong-willed daughter (Jean Simmons) seeks a career on the stage, presumably against his wishes.

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But the gladiator fights now pale beside Mr Scott's, while the script's lofty ambitions are undercut by the insistence of Kirk Douglas, the leading actor, that the focus must continually return to his on-screen romance with Jean Simmons.

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On that count the 35th annual festival was a great success -- scores of fascinating features, documentaries and shorts, along with tributes to three people who richly deserve them: the actress Jean Simmons, the Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell and the American director David Fincher.

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