Think about it.Go on, beat it now.Go on home before we both take a swim.Mildred Pierce-Beragon (Joan Crawford) is encouraged o leave the pier and not commit suicide.She walks back down the pier and wipes the tears from her cheek.From inside a dingy pier restaurant, Wally Fay (Jack Carson) recognizes Mildred and raps on he window to catch her attention.Getz had once done a favor for Travis - acquiring prime box seats for him at ice hockey games.Riggs announced on the PA system that Travis was being sought by the LAPD.Both Getz and Riggs spotted Travis fleeing from the stands - and Getz tackled him when he ran onto the ice, but Travis escaped after shooting him.Its first airing on NBC-TV was in 1972, and its first video (laserdisc) release was in 1985.It received only one Oscar out of its 10 Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture, two Best Actor nominations (for Dean and Hudson - it was Hudson""s sole Oscar nomination in his entire career), Best Supporting Actress (McCambridge), Best Adapted Screenplay (Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat), Best Color Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Color Costume Design, Best Film Editing, and Best Music Score (Dimitri Tiomkin)) - Stevens won the Best Director Oscar (his second Oscar following another Best Director win forA Place in the Sun (1951))." She old Nick that she was concerned and suspicious that her father was nowhere to be found, and had failed to notify her.Don""t sell it short.It""s quite a sight, 1,000 rattlers in the underbrush, and a lot of men smokin"" them out, bashin"" in heir heads.