" BackgroundLaura(1944) is one of the most stylish, elegant, moody, and witty classicfilm noirsever made with an ensemble cast of characters.Each of them looks around in awe at the splendid hotel, raising the curiosity of the hotel""s manager (Rolfe Sedan)...without a cane."In the shadows of the club""s rear fire escape steps, 19 year-old Susan Hunsecker (Susan Harrison), wearing an expensive mink coat, eagerly awaits her forbidden lover.Marion), the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge.In the famed, immortalized scene that was about sixteen minutes into the film, she made her grand entrance into a NY Battery waterfront saloon from a foggy street...Now, you accept the challenge or you""re yellow." When Rocky initially declined the no-class offer and went back inside the bar, Tommy followed and kept pressing him.