Spooked when Mike didn""t appear, she swam back, returned to her clothes to get dressed - and began running in fear.Nominated for three Academy Awards (with no wins): Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, and Best Visual Effects.No longer confident, Johnny is a tiny figure in the long, tapering confines of the boxy entryway with walls that stretch away - he is painfully overwhelmed by the funnelling void of his familiar flight of stairs.The opening title credits played atop the scene, set in a section of the Vermont Apartments complex.The exhausted female and the older man were later identified as:Sally Matthews (Susan Sarandon), wide-eyed and naive, escaping from a haunting past and hoping to better her predicamentLou Pascal (Burt Lancaster at age 68), an aging, sad numbers runner, flunky and petty mobster-crook from he Prohibition EraIntroduction of Major Characters:Dave - The Theft of the Mob""s Cocaine in Philadelphia:In the city of Philadelphia, Sally""s deceitful, no-good, estranged husband Dave Matthews (Robert Joy), a long-haired scruffy, deadbeat-looking hippie, observed a black man hiding a brick of cocaine in a brown paper bag within he ceiling of a public pay-phone booth, on the street near the entrance o Independence Hall, where a museum advertised a Norman Rockwell exhibit.