《《》》Storyline
It's kind of sordid when you think of it, I mean, when you think it over." She also foolishly asks about his dwelling-place:Irene: Could you tell me why you live in a place like this when there are so many other nice places?Godfrey: You really want to know?Irene: Well, I'm very curious.The Man must row back to the dock, walk back to their house and lock up the agitated dog - interrupting his carefully-timed plans.We have footprints, tire tracks.We have bullets strewn on the ground which bear his fingerprints.A broken bourbon bottle, likewise with fingerprints.And most of all, we have a beautiful young woman and her lover lying dead in each other's arms.They had sinned.But was their crime so great as to merit a death sentence?...A revolver holds six bullets, not eight.I submit that this was not a hot-blooded crime of passion.That, at least, could be understood if not condoned.No - this was revenge of a much more brutal and cold blooded nature.Consider this.Four bullets per victim.Not six shots fired but eight.That means that he fired the gun empty and then stopped to reload so that he could shoot each of them again.The title role character in this tearjerker was immortalized and based upon one of Dumas' actual acquaintances in Paris - a youthful courtesan named Marie Alphonsine du Plessis who died at the age of wenty-four (of tuberculosis).The Tramp advised:"Tomorrow the birds will sing!""Be brave! Face life!"However, the millionaire refused: "No, I'll end it all!" In the ensuing rescue scene, the Tramp valiantly intervened o prevent the man's determined suicide, but the loop in the rope fell around his neck and pulled him into the river instead.