..the expensive kind" with the unbeatable acknowledged master "Minnesota Fats" (Jackie Gleason), advises Charlie (derisively labeling him as Eddie""s "manager, his friend, his stooge") to forget about winning: "Take your boy and go home.He explains his past crime and his early parole from prison after being convicted of self-defense manslaughter in a drunken, bar-room brawl:I""ve been in the penitentiary for four years.Again, they reprise their most familiar roles - Stanley, the thin, meek simpleton, and Ollie, he fat, pompous one.Fresh air, sunshine, boy, you""ll be living." After placing a raw piece of meat on the grill, Nick attends to a gas customer outside.Frank""s first look at hot-blooded, voluptuous Cora (Lana Turner) is prefaced by her lipstick case noisily rolling across the floor of the cafe toward him seated at the counter.Anguished, Jim believes that he causes his parents o continually move from town to town to protect him.