Bonnie: Yeah, but what did ya do before?Clyde: I was, uh, I was in State Prison.Bonnie: StatePrison! (She halts again)Clyde: Uh-huh.Bonnie: Well, I guess, uh,somelittl"" ol"" lady wasn""t so nice.Clyde: (expressed as part of a tough guy act) It was armed robbery.Bonnie: My, my.The things that turn up in the street these days.In the small, rural, Southwest Texas town where they walk along the empty main street (except for one elderly Negro sitting on a bench in front of a barber shop), Clyde asks her about her dull life after passing the closed-down movie theatre and other mostly-deserted shops: "Whatcha all do for a good time around here - listen o the grass grow?" In a display of unconventional, daring bravado, he points down to his right foot and brags to her that he once chopped wo toes off with an axe "to get off of work detail" in state prison.He had another disturbing vision of deceased Captain Stacy in the crowd behind Gwen""s family, and imagined him urging again as he died: "You""re gonna make enemies.But on the 16th of January, the Volstead Act takes effect and traffic in liquor goes completely undercover to stay there for many long years.The dangers of a complacent nation (with hunger amidst a land of plenty) being manipulated and taken over by neo-Fascist forces and Hitler""s Third Reich (a reality in the early 1940s) are countered in the film by the actions of the ordinary ""little man.]:Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome, Fremde, etranger, stranger...Happy to see you...Welcome...To Cabaret.Simultaneously, as a railway train arrives at the Berlin station, the MC adds that "life is beautiful" in the club, although that is far from the truth:"Leave your troubles outside.