A black pool opened up at my feet.I dived in.It had no bottom").Producer Adrian Scott and screenwriter John Paxton were re-teamed with director Edward Dmytryk and actor Dick Powell for another highly-regarded RKO film noir,Cornered (1945).The Secretary of Defense (Barry Kelley) announces cuts in the Defense Department budget:Since no great naval power menaces the free world oday, the Navy""s overwhelming preponderance of surface ships seems o be superfluous, hence the cuts in budget." They stressed that a fight with has-been Balboa was the only one with "marquee value" that could bolster Dixon""s failed popularity - but Dixon was fed up with them and threatened to go back to his old trainer.Then as a symbolic gesture, he lets the farmer and his Negro hired hand/sharecropper Davis shoot more bullets into the abandoned building and the panes of its windows.