The film itself often reverted to melodramatic style, with great character actors adopting static and unnatural attitudes, postures and gestures.In an elegant apartment as they are evicted under the watchful eye of the SS, the wealthy Jewish inhabitants, the Nussbaums, gather together framed pictures, silverware, and anything else of value that they can carry with them.Thornhill and the man circle around he room eyeing each other, until the man observes: "Not what I expected." When he said she smelled like a can of rotten tuna fish, she punched him in the stomach.When she wasn""t looking, he reached into her purse and stole her wallet before leaving.Chrissie defended her allegiance to Dave, played upon Sally""s emotions ("I think of this baby as being ours.