He manufactures adulterous evidence for clients to collect payoff fees ("the big squeeze").[In Roman Polanski""sChinatown (1974), detective J.J.Gittes has a similar occupation as a divorce specialist].As a ""bedroom"" detective, his devoted secretary Velda is used as date-bait to snare potentially adulterous husbands.]The 74 minute film was a box-office failure, due to the advent of the "talkies" a year before, but its indelible images yet remain.The married couple lovingly embraced in the doorway of their cabin, o face the wind together.[Note: The original script idea (based upon the novel) called for a tragic and downbeat ending - after suffering rape and committing homicide, the heroine Letty wandered blindly into the middle of the sandstorm and disappeared - to presumably die for her crime.Hunsaker was forced to admit his shady past - during the war, he had worked with a group called Air America, a CIA front that secretly ran the entire war from Laos, in a special unit of mercenary killers known as "Shadow Company.