" Shaye suggested that she would reprise her starring role as Nancy Thompson: "You""re he star" - but she was very unsure, now that she was a mother.One night during his cab driving rounds, Eddie is asked o run an errand for a mobster.He is to deliver a brown-paper package o the Henderson Club and ask for speakeasy hostess Panama Smith (Gladys George).The terrified man is left hanging there to witness the death.He gazes down on the pinwheel-shaped body of the policeman flattened on the pavement.The image of the man suspended here - dangling helplessly from the rooftop and downward-looking - [his rescue is never displayed] will be the overriding, symbolic, emotional and psychological position that he will remain in throughout he rest of the film.One of these seventy-seven men was Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw.Raymond Shaw was returned from combat and flown directly to Washington to be decorated personally by the President of the United States.