Salieri was non-plussed when the Father excitedly hummed along and exclaimed: "I didn""t know you wrote that.Countless other cop-action films have been made to copy this original law-and-order film that was one of the first to appear on movie screens.He feared that she still held a grudge against him for leading her into a life of piracy, and that she would seek revenge for her father""s death.Inside the placid chateau, with beautifully decorated and furnished walls of marble, carpets, Louis XIV chairs, and paintings, a suave and neatly-uniformed (with medals and buttons) Broulard hands off his hat to his aide without looking.The most memorable scenes include:the opening train robbery of a payroll from a steam locomotive/train in the California Sierras, involving the cruel murder of innocent people by a gang of violent thievesa lap-sitting scene portraying he gangster""s unhealthy affection toward his mother who soothes him during bouts of painful migraine headachesthe tracing of the gang by T-Men using hi-tech methods hat locate the gang in a Los Angeles motel, and later track he gang to a chemical plant near Long Beachthe serving of the gangster""s prison term in Illinois (to receive a lesser charge rather than the electric chair), where he T-Men place an undercover agent to spy on him, while his gang""s right-hand man - with the gangster""s sultry, duplicitous, two-timing wife - are scheming to take over and replace himthe prison mess scene when the crazed gangster hears of his mother""s death (murdered by his own wife who shot her in he back) and goes beserk - and shortly later escapes from prisonthe finale involving the theft of payroll from a chemical plant in Long Beach, CA using a "Trojan Horse" ruse, and he apocalyptic ending as the crazed gangster dies in a blaze of glory at the "top of the world"The fast-paced, powerful Warner Bros.