Although the low-comedy film had two Academy Awards nominations (that didn't win), Best Adapted Screenplay (for Mel Brooks and star Gene Wilder) and Best Sound, two deserving cast members, Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn, were un-nominated, as was the wonderfully crisp black-and-white cinematography by Gerald Hirschfeld.She complained about his overly-handsy approach:"You had moments of kind of making like an octopus.I never saw so many hands in all my life."He apologized for liking her so much: "My only excuse is that I liked ya - right away.So I started wrong.Can't we begin all over again?" He wished to resume their relationship, but other matters were more pressing at the moment: (Nikki: "We don't have time for that now, anyway")...After a dissolve, the setting was the dock at Southhampton where theQueen Marywas disembarking passengers, including Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings)." When the squeamish, hyperventilating victim wails and pleads despairingly: "Oh God! I don't belong here! I wanna go home," the prisoners chant: "Fresh fish!" The oppressed 'Fat-Ass' blubbers his unheard complaints to Hadley and is beaten with an unceasing rain of baton blows and kicked in the face until he lies still on the cold floor.