BackgroundAtlantic City(1981) is a sad, unsentimental, evocative and bleak character study by French New Wave director Louis Malle.Noticing his return from an upstairs bedroom was Mitch Wayne (Rock Hudson) with Kyle""s stricken wife Lucy (Lauren Bacall).It""s monstrous." A few minutes later, Popil was notified that the butcher""s head was impaled on a gate nearby, placed there (learned later, by Hannibal""s aunt) and inscribed with a Nazi insignia on his forehead - Hannibal was no longer considered a suspect.By this time, dogs are heard barking and the workers"" voices are chattering.She lowers and then drops the gun after a total of six shots.The camera tracks forward into a closeup of her face, but there are no clues or betraying emotions there.Virgil predicted that at the current radiation levels, they were either ""brave"" or ""mad"" to be there and had only two hours of time.