" Claire partnered with him, vowing to seek revenge for her husband""s murderer.Using a stack of currency given to him, Ethan funded the recruitment of other local, "disavowed" (blacklisted) intelligence agents from the IMF database, including French pilot Franz Krieger (Jean Reno) and computer hacker expert Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames).It was adapted from a 1952 Broadway play of the same name by George Axelrod (co-scripted by Wilder), with Tom Ewell reprising his Broadway role (although on stage, Ewell had played opposite Vanessa Brown instead of the alluring MM).Fred: I feel the same way now - only more so.Al: I know what you mean.Fred: Just nervous out of the service, I guess.Al: The thing that scares me most is that everybody is gonna try o rehabilitate me.Fred: All I want""s a good job, a mild future, a little house big enough for me and my wife.Give me that much and I""m rehabilitated (he clicks his fingers) like that.Al: Well, I""d say that""s not too much to ask.Fred: Are you married, Al?Al: Yup.Fred: How long?Al: Twenty years.Fred: Twenty years?! Holy smoke! We didn""t even have twenty days before I went over.I married a girl I met when I was in training in Texas.Al: Well, now you and your wife will have a chance to get acquainted.As they approach low for a landing in their old home-town and peer out through the nose of the plane, they reassure themselves hat it "hasn""t changed very much.An Unwed Mother""s Dilemma:The front of an austere, three-story CHARITY HOSPITAL came into view.At the maternity hospital""s imprisoning front metal gate, a Woman (Edna Purviance), an unwed "fallen" mother, was dismissed from the protective confines of the facility by a stern-faced, cynical-looking, white-uniformed nurse, after she had given birth o a child out of wedlock:The woman - whose sin was motherhood.He measures his height and strength against others who are accepted, and then enters the line again.Johnnie tries to disguise his appearance by tilting his hat over his face and using a different name and occupation: "William Brown, Bartender.