" One of his assistants, Roy (David Clarke) assures him of an easy victory in an open-and-shut case: "It""s a cinch." He and another detective Gus Moran (George Dzundza) ring the bell of Catherine Tramell""s lavish mansion-home in San Francisco o question her.During the wide-screen Technicolored film""s production, here was a change of directors early on (from Anthony Mann (famous forEl Cid (1961))to the young Stanley Kubrick, who wasn""t permitted his usual directorial freedom or control of the script, resulting in a decidedly un-Kubrick-like film) and rampant ego clashes amongst the actors.Damn.Days go on and on.They don""t end.He is tormented and pent-up, lying awake on his bed watching daytime soap operas on television in his littered hovel, and full of agony trying to find his own identity:All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go.