The story of two kids on the opposite side of the law was a popular theme in other 30s films, such asManhattan Melodrama (1934)andDead End (1937).When his wife Katie picks up the ringing phone [the second intrusive phone call], she hears four-letter obscene words directed at her.Kirk met Nero face-to-face, when Nero foretold that history was now changed, and that Kirk would die like his father on theKelvin.Diverting her physical arousal, he entices Bonnie into a glamorous life with his own unrealistic, ignorant and childish fantasies of freedom, wealth and fame...prey to passing prowlers, poverty and policemen...with only ten cents in his pocket...John Lloyd Sullivan, the Calef of Comedy departed Hollywood at four o""clock this morning."In a classic farcical, slapstick, briskly sped-up, cross-country chase scene, after he is picked up by a thirteen-year-old hot-rodder (Robert Winkler) who is wearing a crash helmet and is "studyin"" o be a whippet tanker.