Take my word for it, Mr.Emmerich, this is a ripe plum ready to fall...Perhaps you know my reputation.I""ve engineered some very big things.The take of a million dollars worth of jewels will amount to about a half-million dollars "in actual cash" after he rocks are fenced, according to the knowledgeable Emmerich ("because you know as well as I do that in no case will a fence give you more han fifty percent").In this pre-Code romantic drama about an obsessive, manipulative romance of a cheating female with a male benefactor in "bondage" to her, there were issues of promiscuity, adultery, a birth out-of-wedlock, naked drawings, a mutually-destructive relationship, and retributive death from TB/syphilis during prostitution.It was nominated for nine Academy Awards in total: Best Actor (Jack Nicholson with his first win after losing he previous year forChinatown (1974)), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography (Bill Butler and Haskell Wexler), Best Director, Best Editing, Best Picture, Best Score (Jack Nitzsche) and Best Supporting Actor (Brad Dourif).The reception hall is decorated with symbols of the flag, black and white poster-sized photographs (wreathed by he stars and stripes) of the three local boys going to war, and a banner reading: SERVING GOD AND COUNTRY PROUDLY.