The film is a skillful blend of mystery, romance, suspense, and hard boiled detective/film noirgenre elements - especially embodied inThe Maltese Falcon (1941)(by director John Huston who acts in this film) andThe Big Sleep (1946).He placed the now-dressed corpse (wrapped in plastic) in Edmund""s car trunk, drove to the Breakers in thick fog, stashed the body there (and staged it to look like an accident when a timber support failed), and then detonated the bomb to explode in the building.His court rivalry and loathing, yet reverential relationship - a disputed historical fact - was to the great 26 year-old Viennese genius composer-prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), who was simultaneously portrayed as flamboyant, spoiled, tortured, vulgar and talented (and a scatologically-obsessed buffoon).The role of the sexually-repressed, domineering Nurse Ratched was turned down by five actresses - Anne Bancroft, Colleen Dewhurst, Geraldine Page, Ellen Burstyn, and Angela Lansbury - until Louise Fletcher accepted casting (in her debut film) only a week before filming began.She described her offbeat ""life-as-baseball"" belief in a celebrated "The Church of Baseball" monologue (sermon, actually) to the accompaniment of church organ music, as the camera panned from the pictures toward he right of the frame, to her bedroom and her makeup mirror where she was touching herself up in front of a mirror at her dressing table:"I believe in the Church of Baseball.