Cole announced that Riggs and Murtaugh were abruptly taken off the case the moment that Phelps "hit the floor.This comedy was a transition film for the director since it was the earliest example of a Woody Allen film with a fairly distinct storyline - with a beginning, middle, and ending.You allowed me to distract you! Everyone, listen to me.The players are coming to the casino in teams.One sits here, one sits there.The cards are good.The player at the first base spills his drink.Your eye moves.The player at the third base triples his bet.They have a million clever ways of trying to cheat you.Focus! Concentrate! Concentrate.Concentrate."Sally - who wanted to be more cultured and to better herself (as part of her deliverance from her situation) - was also being instructed by the womanizing Joseph about other extravagances in life, including opera (theNormaopera that she had been playing on her cassette player) and the French language (on tutorial apes).It turned out to be a classic, dark-toned, dimly-lit moody film based on the 1959 novelMcCabeby Edmund Naughton, about a naive, non-conformist, bearded anti-hero -- a vain- glorious cardsharp in the snowy Northwest rather than the hot dusty Southwest.I need your help - oh, I need it badly, but I""m not gonna beg for it.In the name of this state, which we love, in the name of the governor in whose house we meet, I demand it.