..Don""t work oo hard, Shooter.It might drive you to drink." Nick can""t restrain himself and faces Nilsen: "Stop riding me, man, I""ll kick your f--kin"" teeth in!" The police psychologist Beth, who has just entered the bar, helps to calm Nick down - "her favorite patient" according to Nilsen.What about all the buildings going up around the place? Already there are queers and poodles in the area." Sophia""s unpleasant, domineering mother-in-law hoped to improve the royal blood line by having Sophia marry her no-good simpleton nephew.She is driven to the vast McCanles empire and Spanish Bit Ranch, and taken in by Laura Belle.At the ranch, sultry but innocent Pearl is warmly welcomed by delicate and frail Laura Belle.Outspoken and cantankerous Senator McCanles (Lionel Barrymore), an invalid in a wheelchair who rules the ranch with an iron hand, abruptly makes references to Pearl as Scott Chavez"" daughter.Originally, Polanski had considered Anjelica Huston for the role ultimately assumed by Faye Dunaway - hat would have made herreal-lifefather, John Huston, heron-screenfather (incestuous) also!Plot SynopsisThe film""s credits play under a sepia-colored art deco background in the old 1:33 screen format, suggesting the bygone era from the past - one of yellowed photographs, the early days of Hollywood""s sound pictures, amber-preserved fossils, or images drained of their color.