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Even in America, it was feared that the shocking, 'Communist' movie glamorized an anti-social subculture in revolt, would set a bad example, and cause impressionable viewers to copy-cat its plot and incite deliquency and riots.Big game hunting in Africa, fox hunting in Pennsylvania.Married on impulse and divorced in a rage.And always unapproachable by the press.'The Unapproachable Miss Lord.' 'The Philadelphia Story'...(quote) 'A Wedding Day Inside Mainline Society.'Mike: Or: 'What the Kitchen Maid Saw Through the Keyhole.' (unquote)...(quote) 'No hunter of buckshot in the rear is Cagey Crafty Connor.' (unquote) (closed paragraph)Liz: Closed job, closed bank account.But Mr.Kidd, how can you possibly get inside the Lord estate, let alone the house?Mike: Now we're not gonna do it, Liz, dawgonnit, it's degrading.Wilson) in a telephone booth in another part of the bus station.He has recently been fired for drinking on the job - and turning in a story in "free verse." He drunkenly tells off his boss on the other end of the line:In a pig's eye, you will!...Hey listen monkey face, when you fired me, you fired the best newshound your filthy scandal sheet ever had.]In many ways, the film has become prophetic and mirrors he violence of contemporary news headlines.Notoriously, the film is linked to and may have triggered the political assassination (copy-cat) attempt by inconspicuous John Hinckley on President Ronald Reagan in 1981, illuminating his dangerous fixation on actress Jodie Foster, and resulting in the assassin's infamous media-hero status.