In the blackness of space, he pilots of the Pan Am spaceship dock (or penetrate with) the phallic craft - through the aid of graphic read-out screens that must constantly be monitored - in the spoke-hub of the gigantic, circular, revolving space station [a symbol of an egg] - almost like a copulatory act.The love-struck Malloy added another detail: "We was to be married." Outside, Marlowe was officially hired to find the woman - Velma Valento.During a brief preliminary investigation, private cop Marlowe learned that the previous owner Mike Florian ran the joint until 1939 when he died while drinking a beer in 1940.One of the thugs coldly states: "I think somebody fell off the roof.He thought he was gonna sing for the Crime Commission.He won""t." Unknowingly set up, Terry is stunned by the murder, believing that the racketeers (and his brother) would only threaten he man:I thought they was gonna talk to him.The straight-forward narrative is told and seen mostly hrough the eyes of the young impressionable hero, who idolizes a mysterious, gunslinging hero from the wilderness who appears from nowhere - a man without a past or a future.[Note: Two years earlier, Goulding had directed Paramount""sThe Devil""s Holiday (1930)- a romantic drama that opened at another Grand Hotel, and starred Nancy Carroll in her sole Oscar-nominated role.