] Reddish-haired, inexperienced Rita Hayworth (birthname: Margarita Cansino) made her most important film appearance to date as Grant""s "no-good" ex-wife.He had experienced a series of mediocre post-war flops, including RKO""s romantic comedyMagic Town (1947), the musical comedy anthologyOn Our Merry Way (1948)from UA, another romantic comedyYou Gotta Stay Happy (1948)from Universal,and MGM""s melodramatic-adventure filmMalaya (1949).Mundson rescues him with his ebony cane and its protruding stiletto dagger.[The revelation of the sexually-powerful cane-dagger is a perverse, compensating Freudian erect phallic substitute - "It is a most faithful, obedient friend.He told them that Dr.Evil had escaped in his rocket - although he had disappeared from the tracking system.When room service arrived, a disguised Random Task attacked them, and Austin subdued the henchman with his penis-enlargement pump, while Vanessa knocked him out with a champagne bottle.But down thesemean streetsa man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.