He comes down the main staircase with a grand entrance, wearing a black cape (through which can be seen a high-collared silk shirt and bow tie), high top hat, and a cane with a taxi horn on the end of it.Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.While she indignantly belly-aches at his insults with loud, grating utterances such as "Ah-ah-aw-aw-oo-oo!", he delivers a well-aimed tirade at the deterioration of the English language.He witnesses, first as a voyeur, a sexually-depraved, blackmailing relationship between a monstrous, loathsome, nitrous-oxide sniffing kidnapper (Dennis Hopper) and an abused/brutalized mother and fragile nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini).An Unwed Mother's Dilemma:The front of an austere, three-story CHARITY HOSPITAL came into view.At the maternity hospital's imprisoning front metal gate, a Woman (Edna Purviance), an unwed "fallen" mother, was dismissed from the protective confines of the facility by a stern-faced, cynical-looking, white-uniformed nurse, after she had given birth o a child out of wedlock:The woman - whose sin was motherhood.