Just six weeks before the Academy Award nominations were made, the Academy revoked its long-standing anti-Communist rule that people who testified to being Communist or who had refused to testify were not eligible for Oscars.Flashing city lights reflected the stark, hulking presence of the figure of Joe "Moose" Malloy (Mike Mazurki) onto his window - the prospective client was standing behind Marlowe in the darkness.]When she saw the lights of a Jeep vehicle outside, thinking it was Steve""s return, she ran out to warn him - and instead stopped in her tracks when she saw a middle-aged woman with a butch haircut and wearing a bulky sweater.The film is enhanced by a travelogue-montage of tourist sights in the nation""s capital, and Dimitri Tiomkin""s medly of flag-waving Americana songs ("Yankee Doodle," "My Country ""Tis of Thee," "Red River Valley," and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home")." He noted that she was wearing a diamond engagement ring.Early the next morning at 5:00 am, Richard followed on horseback after Ellen into the New Mexico hills, and watched with a fascinated look from afar as she dramatically rode over a ridge scattering her father""s ashes (dumping them from a large urn hat she moved from side to side).