As with many of Hitchcock's films, there were Academy Award nominations, but no Oscars.This film was nominated for three awards: Best Story and Screenplay (Ernest Lehman), Best Color Art Direction/Set Decoration, and Best Film Editing (George Tomasini).Tom was vain.He had to prove to himself that he was still attractive to women.Maybe he did boast to that woman that he was in good health.What else would you expect him to do?Bannion asks how they could afford an expensive second house in Lakeside and insinuates that their second home was probably beyond their humble means on a typical cop's salary (Bertha: "A wealthy policeman would be a novelty"):There's a chance that Lucy Chapman might try a little blackmail.Kyle was extremely envious of Mitch's stability, talent, education, and responsibility as the foreman within his own company - he was a down-to-earth geologist (who wasn't expelled from college) and was considered as his 'adopted' brother:Lucy: (To Mitch) Just what do you do for the Hadley Oil Company?Kyle: (interrupting) We're troubleshooters.The film's taglines emphasized the title character's revivalist fervor - and the continuing struggle between the dichotomous and contested parts of the human soul (light and dark, sin and salvation, heaven and hell, angelic and devilish, redemption vs.He angrily asked about the CIA's efforts to get him: "Why are you trying to frame me?" She also admitted that Abbott ran Treadstone and "Conklin reported to him," and that the Berlin sting buy had "something to do with a Russian politician [Neski].