Early this afternoon I gave you money.When I was having my shoes polished, I gave you more money.Now you put the bite on me again.Do me a favor, will ya? Go occasionally to somebody else.It""s beginning to get tiresome.Dobbs: Oh, excuse me, mister.I never knowed it was you.I never looked at your face.I just looked at your hands and the money you gave me.Beg my pardon, mister.I promise I""ll never put he bite on you again.White Suit: (He hands over a peso.) This is the very last you get from me.Just to make sure you don""t forget your promise, here""s another peso.(He hands him a second peso.)...But from now on, you have to make your way through life without my assistance.[The in-joke is that the director often provided the livelihood for Bogart by having him star in six of his films, includingThe Maltese Falcon (1941),Across the Pacific (1942), andKey Largo (1948).]At Detective Williams"" home after knocking on the front door and being greeted by Mrs.Williams, Jeffrey is ushered into he detective""s study, where a girl-next-door portrait of the police detective""s daughter Sandy (Laura Dern) is on the desk - her first image in the film.]After he tried on the fedora-hat, she sat in the passenger seat of his red 1964 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray sports car convertible and rolled up the side window.34 million), and became the 10th highest grossing film of 1973.As a zany comedy, it was unexpected that it would receive Academy Awards nominations, although it was a nominee for Best Original Comedy Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America.