]Joey: Vickie, this is my brother Jake.He""s gonna be the next champ.Vickie: Hi.Jake: How ya doin""? Nice to meet ya.He touches her fingers through the metal fence.[The dividing wire between them foreshadows that she will be his ""kept"" woman, or that he will ultimately end up in prison.Bonnie: Hi, I""m Bonnie Parker.Pleased to meet ya.During their first escape in the stolen car, without pursuit, she joins him for thrills and excitement - her ticket out of the dull anonymity of the town.I""m a writer, name""s Martins, Holly Martins.Anyway, down I came, all the way to old Vienna, happy as a lark and without a dime.]An American, Western pulp novelist/writer of juvenile Western pulp stories (Zane Grey-style), Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) [a frivolous first name to define the nature of his character] arrives at the railway station in post-war ravaged Vienna - still under Allied occupation and overrun with black markets.Next door, paralyzed invalid sister Blanche Hudson (Joan Crawford), the former movie star who had suffered a mysterious, career-ending car accident (for which guilt-ridden Jane was blamed but never charged), was a recluse -- wheelchair-bound, semi-imprisoned and secluded in the sparsely-furnished upstairs bedroom.At 78 years of age, he would go on to direct his daughter Angelica in his 40th filmPrizzi""s Honor (1985)- she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.