In contrast o the exteriors were the interior dark recesses of the labyrinthine cave-shaft sequences (shot in a studio) that were particularly allegorical - signifying the impenetrable blackness of the twisted mind of the self-destructive protagonist, as he schemed and descended further and further into his own entrapped existential state - literally a hole from which he couldn""t escape.He entreated his Company: "Will you follow me one last time?" - and his twelve Dwarf companions agreed.Maybe I""d better see Mr.Geiger?And when a respectable looking businessman, a client, is buzzed into the back room, this confirms Marlowe""s feelings about Geiger""s disreputable business (a front for a blackmail racket or for a high-class lending library of pornographic, dirty books for subscribers only)." In his dressing room, Spider Rico read Rocky a Bible passage (Zachariah 4:6: "It is not by strength, not by might but by his spirit we have already claimed the victory in our Lord Jesus Christ").The married couple lovingly embraced in the doorway of their cabin, o face the wind together.[Note: The original script idea (based upon the novel) called for a tragic and downbeat ending - after suffering rape and committing homicide, the heroine Letty wandered blindly into the middle of the sandstorm and disappeared - to presumably die for her crime.