During a one to five year state prison term, he escaped in 1939 and was re-arrested in 1940 and released in 1941.(The entire film was shot on location in New York City.) There are open sewers and manhole covers with steam vapors rising in cloudy gusts - from Hell itself, and glaring red neon lights are flashed and reflected on the face of a New York cab driver.Then, as a struggling axi-cab driver after a change of fortune during the Depression, he becomes a poverty-stricken, alcoholic "forgotten man" in he 30s.] Now off the grid, Hunt described the objective of their unsanctioned IMF mission to his three rag-tag rogue team operatives, to clear he organization""s name: "Our objective is to intercept the sale, replace the authentic codes with counterfeits, and follow Wistrom to Hendricks." His mother spoke privately to Santa to reprimand him for encouraging her son""s dream gift: "I tell you nobody""s got any.