《》Storyline
Policeman Tom Duncan has put a bullet through his head with the revolver.At 3:00 a.m.(displayed on a giant grandfather clock), his "widow" Bertha Duncan (Jeanette Nolan) descends a staircase and discovers his body.)Other serious mainstream Hollywood studio films in he early 1980s were beginning to portray gay partnerships and in-drag characters, includingCruising (1980),Making Love (1982),Partners (1982), andPersonal Best (1982)." Warming himself, he looks around at Geppetto""s home and workshop to admire his carved creations (almost all time-pieces of some sort) - lavishly detailed:dozens of ticking clocks (carved wood) hanging on he wallcute little wooden music boxes ("each one a work of art")shelves of toysa lifeless, black-haired, blue-eyed wooden boy puppet ("one of those marionette things, all strings and joints") on a table! ("Cute little fellow!") - with a white shirt and short red pants (with yellow buttons), white gloves, a blue bowtie, a yellow hat with a red feather, and wooden shoesJiminy hears Geppetto coming down the stairs with his fun-loving, self-serving, playful black and white tuxedo cat Figaro.I""m not that friendly to anybody." After Eddie arrives and interrupts, he again asks his familiar question of one of the leaders: [In the film, Harry, Slim, and Frenchie are he only ones who correctly answer Eddie""s cryptic question.