《《A Woman of Experience (1931)》》Storyline
I""ve got to go back, Amy.Amy: Why?Kane: This is crazy.I haven""t even got any guns.Amy: Then let""s go on.Hurry.Kane: No, that""s what I""ve been thinkin"".They""re making me run.I""ve never run from anybody before.Amy: I don""t understand any of this.Kane: (after looking at his vest watch) Well, I haven""t got time o tell ya.Amy: Then don""t go back, Will.Kane: I""ve got to.That""s the whole thing.(He turns the buggy around and rides back into town.)At 10:50 am, Kane re-enters Hadleyville, as the barber predicts the deadly results of the inevitable confrontation to Fred (Guy Beach), the town""s coffin-maker:Barber: How many coffins we got?Fred: Two.The movie""s taglines hinted at the film""s major themes: obsession, jealousy, and base human sin:HERS WAS THE DEADLIEST OF THE SEVEN SINS!The sin she committed in the name of love could not be judged by man.Martin Luther King, Jr.and NY Senator and popular Presidential candidate Robert F.Kennedy in 1968 [Note: The Oscars"" ceremony in 1968 had to be postponed for two days due to King""s murder!]widespread city race riots (especially in Detroit and Newark in 1967, and then throughout the country after MLK""s murder)the silent, black-gloved, hand-fist Black Power protest salute - a demonstration of two black athletes during the National Anthem at the politically-charged Mexico City Summer Olympics in 1968US elevision""s first inter-racial kiss on an episode ofStar Trekthe Supreme Court""s ruling that inter-racial marriage was constitutionalnumerous protests against the Vietnam War and against segregation in the Southviolence surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and much more.Their own figures are alternately lit and darkened [they both represent two opposite poles themselves - he is the dark ""beast"" and she is the light ""beauty""]:Frank: Maybe it""s none of my business, but, uh, what""s Nick sore about?Cora: He""s so crazy about the sign, he""s afraid you""ll claim it""s your idea instead of his.]I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its Strauss music, its glamour and [its] easy charm -Constantinople suited me better.