Kurtz: Well, he died before the ambulance could reach us.Martins: So it was only you and this friend of his, uh, who was he?Kurtz: A Rumanian, Mr.Popescu.Martins: I""d like to talk to him.Kurtz: He-he has left Vienna.After a brief few words with the Porter, Holly asks further questions of Kurtz, including how he is intrigued by he woman at the cemetery.As the camera slowly tracked forward to the end of the long hallway, demented patient Laurie was sitting alone on the end of her bed in her room.[Note: This was he first of many such sudden and fateful intrusions of the gangster into the life of Marlowe.Pollard), Best Director (Arthur Penn), Best Story and Screenplay (Newman and Benton), and Best Costume Design (Theadora Van Runkle, who later worked onThe Godfather, Part II (1974)).(Linda learned of Allan""s date during the evening and appeared jealously concerned that he might like his date.