" Rocky was reluctant about the method: "I feel like a Kentucky fried idiot." He also was feeling guilty about returning to the ring, having second thoughts because Adrian was crying and didn't approve of his fighting.Attesting to her own innocence, Paula hugs a Bible o her chest - vowing that she didn't remove the picture.Singer Dick Powell was cast against type as the down-and-out, tough-talking, cynical PI Philip Marlowe - often making sarcastic, irreverent and disdainful comments about his predicament.Course, you have to read between the lines.She described her new-found understanding of him - confessing afterwards that she had read the dust-jacket blurb under his picture:You're a bachelor.One of the film's posters correctly proclaimed:"Television will never be the same."The film had a total of ten Academy Award nominations with four wins.To the film's credit, five cast members were nominated for Oscars (and three won) - Best Actor (posthumously awarded to Peter Finch - Finch became the first andonlypost-humous winner of an acting Oscar in Academy history), Best Actress (Faye Dunaway), and Best Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight)).