This economical opening scene characterizes the personalities of he film""s major protagonists: admirable Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney), a hardened George Hally (Humphrey Bogart), and a scared Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn):George: Hey, do ya always come into a rathole like hat?Eddie: Whaddya want me to do, knock?George: (later) There""s ten thousand shellholes around here and everybody""s got to come divin"" into this one.After teaching a streetful of adorable Parisian children some American words, Jerry exuberantly tap dances and teaches them o sing an American song, "I Got Rhythm," partly in French and partly in English, while he dances and leaps down the block.She told me so herself, last Friday when she called up to cancel our dinner engagement.As a matter of fact, she was going to the country to think it over.She was extremely kind, but I was always sure she would never have thrown her life away on a male beauty in distress.The actress"" main goals were to demolish the double standard, to be sexually frank, and to end prudery on screen.