"" With great heart and expressiveness, he stole the show by crooning: ""I Want to Be Free"":There""s no joy in my heart, only sorrowAnd I""m sad as a man can beI sit alone in the darknessOf my lonely room,And this room Is a prison to me.[The black bird serves as the film""sMcGuffin, a plot device that propels the story forward but is proven ultimately worthless - although it wasn""t termed hat at the time.His character changed when he confronted both Eddie Brock and then Marko after a bank robbery in an underground subway station - he left believing the Sandman was dead after he disintegrated in a flood of water.They are ordered to sing a Negro spiritual by Lyle (Burton Gilliam), the white-chain gang overseer:Now come on boys, where""s your spirit? I don""t hear no singin"".Each of the screens is blown or swept away with cigarette smoke.In the opening sequence, an unidentified hand and finger press in the doorbell buzzer of a mansion doorway.