studios, with great dialogue, deceitful characters, and menacing scenes.The precocious director Huston was very faithful to Dashiell Hammett""s 1929 novelThe Maltese Falcon, that had originally appeared as a five-part serialized story in a pulp fiction, detective story magazine publication namedBlack Mask.InTootsie (1982), this happened - the most successful woman and media celebrity portrayed in films of the early 1980s was in fact a disguised actor impersonating a feisty female character.Neither of the two leads, hilarious comedian and radio star Jack Benny (in the most significant film of his career) or Carole Lombard received nominations - probably because the film was considered too insensitive, tasteless or offensive (and politically dangerous), or too close to home for homefront audiences.And Chuck and Terry got hurt and...well, your fingers were cut."Chase assured her that he would be safe, working for two days supplying soap bubbles for a detergent commercial being filmed in Palm Springs.His mother encourages him to follow his heart if that will make him happy: "He""s got to be happy.He""s got to find himself."A map charts Jim""s train journey from the Mid-Atlantic states to New England (North of Boston) to find construction work.