It""s a stinking world because it lets the young get onto the old, like you done.Oh...it""s no world for an old man any longer.What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there""s not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.[The song was an effort to reprise Hayworth""s sultry singing ofPut the Blame on MameinGilda (1946)].The hallucinatory nature of the film is confirmed by O""Hara - he ponders about quitting.He also asks himself whether he is insane or whether the other characters are the crazy ones:Talk of money and murder.Her father Virgil Adams (Fred Stone) is recuperating and bed-ridden from a long illness.He is cared for by her mother Mrs.Adams (Ann Shoemaker), who bitterly disdains her drawling husband""s low-paying clerical job with the wholesale drug firm of Lamb and Co.Lydecker: Did I?McPherson: Yeah.But he was really killed with a sash weight.Lydecker: How ordinary.My version was obviously superior.I never bother with details, you know.McPherson: I do.Because murder is his "favorite crime" and he writes about it regularly, the renowned, droll columnist Lydecker insists on helping McPherson in his assigned investigation, even hough he is a suspect:I know you""ll have to visit everyone on your list of suspects.