]Plot SynopsisDuring the opening prologue, a breathtaking aerial shot of Manhattan from a bird""s eye view captures the city with its bridge traffic and highway ramps, its waterfront docks, parks and skyscrapers.He retreats with the purloined pistol, but tumbles on the wet street into a deep puddle.The gun slides and careens along the soaked pavement, coming o a halt in front of a pair of shoes of a mustached, Stetson-hatted witness/bystander - Sheriff Boston (Trevor Bardette), a representative of the law.In terms of the sixMiddle Earthfilms (both trilogies), it was the lowest-grossing (domestic) film, just $3 million below the previous film:The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), but it was the # 4 film worldwide (ahead of the first and second films in the original trilogy in the last two spots).That evening, I had to run nearly all the way to he station.I""d been to the Palladium as usual, but it was a terribly long film and I was afraid I""d be late.As I came up onto the platform, he Cherriot train was just puffing out.I looked up as the windows of the carriages went by, wondering if he was there.Another idea was crossing my mind but it was quite unimportant.I was really hinking of other things...On her fourth weekly trip, after feeling madly extravagant and suddenly purchasing an expensive birthday gift for Fred, she coincidentally shares a luncheon table with Alec in the Kardomah, a crowded restaurant complete with a "dreadful" ladies"" orchestra.He is infuriated and enraged - with an accompanying snare drum beat, he follows her back to the house and cocks his fist to hit her, but hen hesitates - he cannot quite bring himself to strike her.