When one of his gang members asks if they are going o stay around town or leave ("Are we gonna get out of this dump?"), Johnny tells them that they will remain a while longer - and then looks up at Kathie, obviously attracted to her and interested in spending more time to get to know her better.Ellie is first seen backed up against a stateroom wall by her father - both are engaged in a vicious argument.Another dissolve akes a closer look at the riverside wreckage of an auto junkyard (with a "NO DUMPING ALLOWED" sign) and the decaying, urbanized eastern city [of Philadelphia, literally the City of Brotherly Love] on the horizon."[In flashback, events and characters in the opening sequence begin to make sense as the story unfolds and the pieces of the mystery are explained.Feldman wanted to find a way to remove the contract stipulation that Baby Jane had to be hired along with Blanche.