" His new bride has firm, pacifist Quaker convictions that deplore violence, and he will be putting away his marshal""s star in his last act in office - he removes his badge, a popular Western icon, and pins it on his gun holster, amidst applause.With a script co-written by the director and Mardik Martin, the original film was a low-budget (at $300,000), semi-autobiographical, realistic tale about four struggling, small-time hoods and hustlers in New York""s grim Little Italy in Manhattan""s Lower East Side who were trying to establish themselves.He was also responsible for the""chorine close-up"" shot.In most of Berkeley""s unique and highly-stylized productions including this one - particularly in his climactic ""By a Waterfall"" number, emphasis was placed on very outlandish sets and props, including a giant waterfall and a five-story rotating human-water fountain.Riding on Buckbeak""s back, they returned to the prison cell of the Dark Tower holding Sirius and freed him - he flew away on Buckbeak.He turns on the light in his shared office and staggers o his desk.Wounded and bleeding from a gunshot wound, clearly dying, Neff sits in his swivel chair, loosens his tie, takes out a packet of cigarettes, dumps them onto the desk, picks one of them up and lights it one-handed with a wooden match, and then rolls himself over to his office dictaphone [a new invention at the time], uncovers it, and inserts a new cylinder in the recorder.