This film provided Sirk""s clear commentary and critique of the underlying hollowness and shallowness of American society in the placid 1950s, and misfit lives stunted and corrupted by mental anguish, alcoholism, sexual frustration, and corruptible materialistic wealth.Bert: (to John) Don""t forget to pull down the shades!Mary: (to her mother - played by Lucy Beaumont) Don""t cry, Mother! This isn""t my funeral! (to her brothers Jim (Daniel G." When the criminal refused to comply, Spider-Man grabbed a manhole cover to deflect incoming missiles, then swung the cover on a web-string at the Rhino""s face.When he adds: "I trust you too.I won""t count it," Mrs.Stevens laughs amusedly.Robie (using the alias of "Mr.Burns") contrives o meet Hughson and the Stevens"" - and he is invited to share drinks at their table.After tentatively and suggestively touching (fondling and caressing in a masturbatory way) the barrel of the gun, she goads him on to be her liberating hero by daring him with a sexually-loaded line: "But you wouldn""t have the gumption to use it.