[Note: The mother in Lagana""s portrait is portrayed by the uncredited Celia Lovsky.]:My mother - a great old lady.They broke the mold when they made her.She died last May.She lived here with me.Had her own suite of rooms - her own bath - everything.Never got over being surprised about my success.Rather than coming on a fund-raising errand (for a benefit dance or pension-fund drive), Bannion demands answers about he murder of Lucy Chapman (the bar-girl that Lagana ordered killed the previous night or morning); Bannion describes it as an "old-fashioned," prohibition-style murder including torture and strangulation.Grandi lets her leave, emphasizing that nobody was holding or keeping her there against her will: "Nobody laid a hand on you...WANTED HIS STORY!" - "SHE...WANTED LOVE!"The propagandistic tale of international intrigue from United Artists, involved a hard-headed, but relatively inexperienced American crime reporter and foreign correspondent caught in the political urmoil of Europe just before the outbreak of World War II (in the late summer of 1939).OnHIGHWAY 139 in NORTHERN CALIFORNIAA mother named Claudia (Larisa Miller) and her young daughter Casey (Emmalee Thompson) pulled into an empty rest area for a bathroom stop.