《《The Magician (1926)》》Storyline
Mark Hotel:He wouldn""t tell me where Corinne was.He said she didn""t want to see me.I can""t believe that.He promised to bring her to the hotel [The St.Mark] if she""d come this evening.He said he knew she wouldn""t.He promised to come himself if she didn""t.Just then, Spade""s less brainy partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan) enters the room and is filled in on the details of Miss Wonderly""s story:Miss Wonderly""s sister ran away from New York with a fellow named Floyd Thursby.The urban-jazzy, sometimes discordant score by Elmer Bernstein (and Chico Hamilton""s jazz Quintet) enhances the swanky, pungent underworld maelstrom of nightclubs and restaurants (the 21, the Elysian, Toots Shor""s), the theatre district, brutish cops, cheap offices, crowded sidewalks, and dead-end alleys.These circumstances will soon bring the wo main characters together and contrast their status in the social hierarchy.Jarvis (Joan Freeman), her pretty, wholesome 18 year-old daughter Trish (Kimberly Beck), and innocent 12 year-old video-game horror enthusiast Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman), first seen wearing an alien mask.Jean: Is that so?Linda: Do you know, I think I could fix you up with Mr.Powell""s chauffeur.The chauffeur has a very nice car too.Jean: Yes, but I understand Mr.Powell""s chauffeur doesn""t go as far in his car as Mr.Powell does.Linda: Even a chauffeur has to have an incentive.Jean: Well, you should know.Linda I hope you enjoy your lamb stew again tonight.I""ll be thinking of you while I""m dining on pheasant bordelaise.Jean: (mimicking her high-brow tone) Bordelaise, no less.Whoa, girls, listen, bordelaise she says.Linda: Or maybe it""s casserole, I""m not quite certain.Jean: Be sure not to eat the bones and give yourself away.Speaking to the landlady ("the person I see about accommodations"), Terry asks for a room in the "theatrical boarding house" and requests unrealistically: "I want a room with a private bath.