]The film is also noted for being one of the earliest political spoofs of Stalin""s Communist Russia (with its absolute control, power of censorship, and drab life of deprivation for average citizens), especially remarkable because the film was released during war in Europe (a month after Hitler""s Nazi Germany invaded Poland).One of the film""s slogans proclaimed the rough love affair between the two stars:"He treated ""em rough - and they loved it!"The story was based on the unsuccessful 1928 playRed Dustby Wilson Collison.They fled after Steven caught a glimpse of Jason standing over Martin""s dead body - and as the two were climbing onto his motorcycle, Jason stabbed both of them together with his machete(# 10-11 deaths), a two-for-one kill."Plot SynopsisA title card described the Gay Nineties (1890s) and he turn-of-the-century setting of New York City""s Bowery:When they did such things and they said such things on the Bowery.