If I wanted to build a nice, cosy, unpretentious insane asylum, he""d be the man for it."Later that night, Poelzig descends into the lower chambers of his fortress, coming upon a series of transparent glass-encased displays, with the dead bodies of at least six women floating or in suspended animation within.They strangled and beat the guards and personnel inside, ransacked file drawers, and from the control center released caged apes.The opening title credits played atop the scene, set in a section of the Vermont Apartments complex.The exhausted female and the older man were later identified as:Sally Matthews (Susan Sarandon), wide-eyed and naive, escaping from a haunting past and hoping to better her predicamentLou Pascal (Burt Lancaster at age 68), an aging, sad numbers runner, flunky and petty mobster-crook from he Prohibition EraIntroduction of Major Characters:Dave - The Theft of the Mob""s Cocaine in Philadelphia:In the city of Philadelphia, Sally""s deceitful, no-good, estranged husband Dave Matthews (Robert Joy), a long-haired scruffy, deadbeat-looking hippie, observed a black man hiding a brick of cocaine in a brown paper bag within he ceiling of a public pay-phone booth, on the street near the entrance o Independence Hall, where a museum advertised a Norman Rockwell exhibit....lt means they never let him play the game again.(Later that night, to Annie) My father said he saw him years later playing under a made-up name in some 10th-rate league in Carolina.