He basks in the illusory power and influence of the gangsters he associates with: "It was a glorious time.]A young, teenaged Cockney female named Nancy Oliver (Angela Lansbury in her film debut) is hired by Gregory to be a housemaid (for wages of sixteen pounds a year), with specific instructions o never bother Paula (the "mistress") about anything: "It may seem a little unusual, but your mistress is inclined to be rather highly strung.[Note: The numerous close-ups of Rita Hayworth in the film were later added by Welles in Hollywood upon orders of he studio, to lend strength to her ""star"" power.We""re all very unhappy about it.And I said we should get Superman to rid the world of nuclear arms because only he could do it.I don""t care if everybody thinks I""m a space cadet.Once you""ve destroyed all the nuclear missiles, they""ll see I was right.Superman can make sure we don""t blow ourselves up.Quick and easy.Thanks a lot.I know you""ll come through.Your friend, Jeremy." Clark was troubled by the letter, but Lacy saw an angle to sell more newspapers - they would make the kid a "celebrity" - and she claimed everyone would want to know Superman""s reply.Out of step, out of place and desperately out of time...Suddenly a new West had emerged.Suddenly it was sundown for nine men.Suddenly their day was over.Suddenly, the sky was bathed in blood...Nine men who came too late and stayed too long...Born too late for their own imes.Uncommonly significant for ours.The much-imitated, influential film is book-ended by wo extraordinary sequences, both massacres.The gang of desperadoes are first assaulted in the film""s opening ambush following a failed bank robbery in a Texas border town, and then brutally destroyed in the film""s conclusion - as united comrades in a selfless, redemptive act - by a savage and vindictive Mexican warlord after a double-crossing arms deal.