As she stands and moves oward the door, she is startled by the sight of men standing at her windows.When she screams, glass breaks and she is spun to the ground when shot three times by the silenced guns.]Tatum""s monologue was interrupted by an accusatory Mr.Boot who emerged from his office - and glanced at an open liquor bottle sticking out of Tatum""s desk drawer.Afterwards, lone survivor Alice took a canoe ride out to the middle of the lake and fell asleep, an idyllic scene (possibly an hallucinatory dream?).]Director Billy Wilder attempted a remake with a third film version:The Front Page (1974)with Jack Lemmon (as Hildy Johnson) and Walter Matthau (as Walter Burns).