..and you call the rest of us ""Boss"", you hear?" [The scene has been compared to Christ""s appearance before Pontius Pilate.[The film""s story was based on a real-life crime in March of 1927 perpetrated by married Queens, NY housewife Ruth (Brown) Snyder and her lover, a 32 year-old corset salesman Judd Gray.] He had an unkempt and unshaven look - wearing a tattered and dirty leather police uniform (with a missing right arm sleeve on his leather-jacket), and sporting a rare sawed-off shotgun.In the post WWII era, three of the impassioned students, not yet identified, made an oblique reference (regarding their war-like attack upon the theatre""s seats) to the suicidal charge during the Crimean War ("Into the Valley of Death - Into the Jaws of Hell - Rode the 600"), memorialized in Alfred Lord Tennyson""s 1854 poemThe Charge of the Light Brigade." He is asked to question a woman who has contacted the police with a different story.The scene ends with a close-up of his notes on a pad: Lucy Chapman, The Retreat.That dark evening at the local downtown club, The Retreat (lined with photos of pin-up girls), Duncan""s girlfriend Lucy Chapman (Dorothy Green), who calls herself a "B-girl," tells Bannion hat Duncan had no reason to kill himself.