Although Lehman was originally assigned to direct the film, he dropped out due to health reasons.The film's quotable dialogue (extensively contributed by Odets) of the metropolitan locale is corrosively rich, slang-filled, sharply intelligent, and fast-paced, while the superb, crisp, low-key lighting of the black and white cinematography from veteran James Wong Howe emphasizes the harsh shadows and dark, unglamorous recesses of the corrupt and seamy environment of wheeling and dealing.She profusely apologized and promised Dave that she was cured, and as she said goodbye, she quoted from Edgar Allan Poe's macabre 'Annabel Lee' poem:Because this maiden, she lived with no other thought han to love and be loved by you.This was simultaneously occurring as Michael (with Vincent's aid) was carrying out brutal attacks against all of the Corleone's enemies, including the shooting of Archbishop Gilday, and the poisoning murders (by poisoned cannoli and tea, respectively) of Don Altobello who was watching the opera, and of the new and honest Pope John Paul I/Cardinal Lamberto (Raf Vallone), to whom Michael had confessed his sins earlier: ("I betrayed my wife.After fixing it, Shrek was offered a ride and a "liquid libation", and he expressed his one wish to return to the good-old-days: "Sometimes I wish I had just one day to feel like a real ogre again.As they sleep - and dream, seven gigantic stars slowly appear in the blackness behind them.Out of the center of each of the stars emerges the face of a beautiful woman.All seem annoyed by the presence of the intruders on the Moon.The astronomers see passing comets and meteors in their dreams.Then, the stars are replaced by a lovely vision of goddess Phoebus (Bleinette Bernon, a music hall singer) sitting on a crescent moon (she is on the Moon and also sitting on the Moon?), of Saturn in his globe surrounded by a ring, and of two charming young girls holding up a star.