CHARLIE (Harvey Keitel) - aka Charlie Cappa; he was formally introduced offering ""personal"" penance in church (after denouncing the usual ""Hail Marys""); a devout Catholic who was seeking redemption, he felt an inner struggle and conflicted Catholic guilt about his illicit, criminal and impure activities and urges, and sensed he was unworthy; his struggle was exemplified by the memorable image of him holding his hand directly in the flame of a votive candle before an altar o test himself against the fires of hell.She had me licked.And she knew it.So for a week, she treated me as if I was only somebody working around the place.I nearly went out of my mind.I couldn""t go, and I couldn""t stay the way things were.Then, one night, I finally decided I had to have a talk with her to see if there wasn""t some future, some way for the two of us.The Oscar-nominated screenplay (originally titledMan and Wife) for the sparkling, MGM classic (screwball) comedy of the post-war years was way ahead of its time.The film ended with Lecter""s pursuit and killing (off-screen) of the sixth deserter, Grentz (Ivan Marevich), in his Canadian hamlet of Melville, where he was employed as a taxidermist - Lecter greeted him in his shop with his dog-tag, the whistling ofDas Mannlein Im Walde, his sketched portrait, and the words: "I came to collect a head.BackgroundBad Day at Black Rock(1955) is both a tightly-written, suspenseful, dramatic action film (with film noirish qualities) and a western.