I could go anywhere.I could do anything.I knew everybody and everybody knew me...I was part of something.And I belonged.I was treated like a grown-up.Every day, I was learning to score.A dollar here.A dollar there.I was living a fantasy.When confronted with his school truancy record by his harsh, miserably unhappy, "pissed off" father, Henry is beaten with a belt - the image freeze-frames, leaving its impression on Henry""s consciousness and a bruise on his face.Plot SynopsisIn the opening, pre-credits prologue, the film is introduced by a tuxedoed gentleman (Edward van Sloan, one of the principal characters in the film) who steps from behind a closed curtain and delivers he following teaser - a "friendly warning" - to the audience:How do you do? Mr.Suddenly, the mechanical Samurai rose up from its seat and walked over next to Logan, where it withdrew its 8-foot-long, flaming red-hot sword - poised to slice off Logan""s extended claws.g., the treacherous, lying Mary Astor character identifies herself with three aliases - as Miss Ruth Wonderly, Miss Leblanc, and Brigid O""Shaughnessy), posturings, betrayals and materialistic greed.