]Plot SynopsisThe film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb:And the Prophet said, ""And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty.Under the credits, a conflicted, 19 year-old, vulgar-mouthed, eenaged, self-centered, working-class Italian-American anti-hero from the neighborhood of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, swaggering Anthony "Tony" Manero (a star-making role for John Travolta), strutted eastward down he sidewalk on Brooklyn""s 86th Street.]"I""m sure glad you""re back, Mike, like Lazarus rose out from the grave." It is determined that Hammer""s car is only good for scrap junk: "It""s never gonna go va-voom no more.[Note: She is probably best remembered for her earlier role as the glasses-wearing bookshop assistant who dallies with Humphrey Bogart after closing shop on a rainy day inThe Big Sleep (1946).Tony stole the letter from his wife""s handbag when it had become "an obsession" for him.He had also blackmailed her to admit to the affair: "I even wrote her two anonymous notes offering to sell it back.