Recounting bitterly how his "fair-weather friends" and "women" took his money, he will now stake everything to makePretty Ladya hit:I""ve given everything I""ve had to that gulch down here and it""s taken all I had to offer...not just Eastern Europe." He asked for an inflated amount of $10 million, in negotiable US Treasury certificates, and her "personal assurance" that Job would personally be "at the exchange" - so that he could learn the mole""s identity.Obsession, memory...visions, hallucinations.It all started last summer." Mrs.Venable recalled how her neurotic young relative had suffered a nervous breakdown and threatened suicide following the death of her cousin Sebastian in Spain a few months earlier during the summer.Don Birnam (Ray Milland) and his devoted brother Wick (Phillip Terry, Joan Crawford""s ex-husband #3) are inside their shared, top floor apartment packing for a proposed five-day, extended "long wonderful weekend" trip by train o a country farm where there will be "trees and grass and sweet cider and buttermilk, and water from that well that""s colder than any other.