However, some of the eerie clocks, with simulated human animation, foreshadow he violence and bad behavior to come - an axeman chopping off a urkey""s neck, a hunter with a gun, a drunk, and a mother spanking her misbehaving child:a church tower bell "ding"-ing at the houra honeybee "buzz"-ing clockducks alternating their "quack"-inga mother bird "cuckoo"-ing with her three chicks in egg shellsa woodsman chopping a "gobble"-ing turkey""s necka hunter with a pop-gun shooting at a "peep"-ing yellow bird in a treea drunk "hiccupp"-ing from a windowa mother spanking the bare bottom of her "waa"-ing boy for spilling paintGeppetto""s stopwatch, with two beer drinkers "clink"-ing heir glass steins togetherGeppetto""s WishNow that it""s time for bed, Geppetto bids his puppet good night: "Little funny face.Anxious about what he might do to his sister and fearing his own increasing insanity, Jesse (although bereft of sleep) took Sta-Up pills and drank caffeinated Coke to keep awake." He phones Senator Foley""s (and the new Senator Smith""s) secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) [she is rarely called by her first name Clarissa] and tells her that Smith has disappeared.What is much more important than the basic blackmail-murder plot is the stylish method andprocessof the private detective""s quest, that the viewer identifies with and shares, as he makes his way through the murky world of nasty crime from one oppressive setting o the next, or from one wicked character, fallen woman, orfemme fataleto another, until eventually discovering love with his female protagonist.