Marlowe""s single-handed pursuit and investigation of pervasive corruption and treachery is met with deception, hreats of extermination, and violence (although most of the killings are discreetly committed off-screen).She became frantic and alerted the limousine driver and mansion""s butler that he car was missing - it had been stolen with the baby inside - and hen promptly swooned, fainted and collapsed on the front doorstep.Mary""s (1945),It""s A Wonderful Life (1946),The Bishop""s Wife (1947), andWhite Christmas (1954), and many others." He labels his own torture methods as "absurd and unpleasant extremes." His favorite and most effective method of torture is to drive bamboo slivers beneath their finger-nails and light them.