The man""s left arm hangs lifeless.The train""s conductor stares back at the disbelieving townsfolk with the disembarking passenger.To the train conductor, Macreedy comments on his short stay, but receives a foreboding reply:Conductor: Man, they look woebegone and far away.This was symbolized in the film in movements from bright, daytime S.California scenes to dark, criminal, nightmarish scenes.The film""s taglines described Mildred""s character:The kind of woman most men want...but shouldn""t have!andOffered more in a glance than most women give in a lifetime!In 2011, HBO Cable TV created a five-part mini-series, directed by Todd Haynes, of the melodramatic James M.On he day after Thanksgiving, while dressing up in his own authentic ""Santa Claus"" costume in the Macy""s employees locker room, Kris met another worker, impressionable 17 year-old Alfred (Alvin Greenman) from Brooklyn, who was a janitor at the store.]The main criticisms of the albeit intriguing and highly entertaining film were mostly about the many substantial liberties aken regarding the historical Mozart with highly-fictionalized distortions of historical fact to create better drama, including - (1) the fabrication of an intense rivalry between Salieri and Mozart and the many attempts at sabotage to destroy his career that ultimately led to Mozart""s premature demise, (2) the horrible American accents by many of the cast members, representing the vernacular German, (3) Salieri""s portrayal as a mediocre composer (which he wasn""t), and as a chaste bachelor although he was married and had eight children, and reportedly had soprano-pupil Caterina Cavalieri as a mistress, (4) the fact that Mozart had two surviving children instead of only one, and (5) theRequiem Masswas commissioned not by a disguised Salieri but anonymously by a vain, plagiarist - German aristocrat Count Walsegg-Stuppach (known at the time as the mysterious ""Grey Messenger""), and the completion of the unfinishedMasswas by Mozart""s assistant, composer/conductor Franz Xaver Süssmayr - it wasn""t dictated to Salieri.The purest dreams of the couple, both ""broken blossoms"", are destroyed by sordid reality of racism.[The film""s tale, in part, inspired director Federico Fellini""s classic dramaLa Strada (1954)with three similar character roles.