There, John has a new perspective of himself from the bus"" lofty heights:John: Look at that crowd! The poor boobs..." But Tracy is appalled by a scandal, tabloid sheet that would report on a couple""s private affairs - she tosses the paper into the dirt: "Of all the filthy ideas - coming into a private house with a camera.The plot twisting, witty, and suspenseful film (similar to Hitchcock""sThe 39 Steps (1935),To Catch a Thief (1955),North by Northwest (1959), and the entries in theJames Bondseries), shot on sets and on-location in Paris, is a sophisticated, yet off-balanced combination of thrills and comedy from screenwriter Peter Stone""s first film screenplay.Plot SynopsisSummer, 1903The First Vignetteopens with a static view of a greeting card (or family album snapshot) picturing a lovely, sepia-colored Victorian house in St.After a long pause and a trumpeters"" fanfare, the anthem is sung a second time and all the guests look toward the entrance, but Firefly still fails to enter.