《《》》Storyline
Charles?...She usually is trying one way or the other to get money out of Wynant...I wanted to find out if you were, uh, (laughs), sleuthing for her?Nick explained that he had quit being a gumshoe detective four years earlier and preferred to be retired, in order to manage he private affairs of his newly-wed heiress wife - and presumably spend his inherited fortune.He was the deadbeat and irresponsible father who had abandoned his pregnant girlfriend.As he turned and reached for a rolled-up piece of paper behind the photo, he carelessly and accidentally struck the photo, sending it tumbling down from the mantlepiece into a burning charcoal fire.The most impressive change was that the legendary opening shot (described below) was seen without obscuring, super-imposed credits, and the blaring, distracting Henry Mancini background music during the elaborate scene was stripped away and replaced by natural source music (from doorways of dives the couple passes, or from car radios).In the final scene on Canto Bight, the brown-haired young stable boy who had helped Finn and Rose escape, listened as another stable kid (Joshia Oniha) spoke in an alien language while relating the legendary adventures of Luke Skywalker." Posters advertised: "A HUNDRED STEPS AHEAD OF ANY PICTURE THIS YEAR."Over a four day period, the suave, imperturbable and clever male protagonist (played by Robert Donat who had recently starred in the swashbucklerThe Count of Monte Cristo (1934)and was popularly known as the "Monte Cristo Man"), is paired (literally handcuffed) to a classic, cool and icy, intelligent blonde maiden - Madeleine Carroll.