We""re now supporting Harrison").The principled reporter promptly quits his job.Although Stark loses the election to Harrison in a close race, Stark sweeps rural areas.The city vote decides the election, and a record number of votes are polled.Willie is joined at a bar for drinks by Sadie, Burden, and stuttering henchman Sugar Boy (Walter Burke) - a bodyguard and assistant who previously worked for his opponent Tiny Duffy.[The human-like portrait was actually a photograph of Gene Tierney taken by studio photographer Frank Polony - and touched-up with a few light brushings of paint.Elliott leaves the room with his baseball and glove and walks down the slick driveway in the rain and mist.What remains of the film was directed by the ambitious, extravagant, stubborn and independent-minded Erich Von Stroheim - he spent nine months shooting the film and a total of fifteen months writing and editing it (from 1923-1924).She was viciously slashed (sending her to the hospital on a stretcher).As a result, Evelyn was to be put away in a state sanitarium.A long musical interlude montage sequence followed (to the tune of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" sung by Roberta Flack), when Tobie and Dave were reconciling their relationship and walking along the coastline.