Posing as the former teaching assistant of Mr.Spassky, one of the three scientists who had a "secret job," Clark learned that Spassky had telephoned his hospitalized mother - the call was traced to an abandoned Soviet army base outside Cherkassy, in the Ukraine, where the scientists (including Spassky) had presumably been activating Dressler""s bomb.Gideon (Ned Glass), sternly pay their respects by staring into the casket to assure themselves that the man is dead.The neophyte canoers are unsure of their direction:Bobby: Which way are we goin"", this way or that?Lewis: I think, uh, downstream would be a good idea, don""t you? Drew - you and Bobby see some rocks, you yell out now, right?.Director William Wellman""s pre-code, box-office smash, shot in less than a month at a cost of approximately $151,000, was released at approximately the same time as another classical gangster film -Little Caesar (1930/31)that starred Edward G.