..What? From Africa to here, a dollar eighty-five? That""s an outrage.I told you not to take me through Australia.You know it""s all ripped up.You should have come right up the Lincoln Boulevard.He rudely waves back his host, Mrs.Rittenhouse, who has approached, and insults her: "I""ll attend to you later!" But hen he turns to see her - describing her with a dislocating, self-contradictory sentence:Why, you""re one of the most beautiful women I""ve ever seen, and that""s not saying much for you.Mortimer""s bizarre, eccentric younger brother, their nephew Theodore Brewster (John Alexander), fantasizes that he is President Teddy Roosevelt." [Throughout the film, she is identified in pastoral, peaceful, well-lit, and safe environments, when compared to the other female in the film, Kathie, the darker, more exciting femme fatale." Again, he frame freezes on the wild congratulatory scene - this experience is another major imprint of mob life and its ethos upon Henry""s adolescent mind.[MacMurray would star in another against-type, bad-guy role in Wilder""sThe Apartment (1960).] Actually, this was also Stanwyck""sfirstunsympathetic villainess role, something she would later reprise inWalk on he Wild Side (1962).