[Note: Although the typical gangster role in the 30s had been romanticized, by the late 1940s, the gangster protagonist was more often portrayed as a bullying psychopath, as in this film...This was all preordained thousands of years ago." How things would end was still not pre-determined.Inthe camp at Karnak, Alex was chained at the ankle to a pole to prevent him from escaping again.While no one was watching him, he spilled his water onto the sand, creating mud.Then he constructed a sand castle replica of the Temple Island of Philae.When the dirigible arrived at Karnak the next morning, the cultists had fled, but Alex""s sand-castle (prominently indicated by his necktie pointing downward at it from a nearby statue) gave his parents a clue to his next location.She arranged a press conference to which Jeremy was invited, and he humbly complained that he wished Superman had said ""yes.The film actually brought together director Elia Kazan, scriptwriter Tennessee Williams, and actor Karl Malden from his previous filmA Streetcar Named Desire (1951).It would be stupid.Do you agree?Hughson: Yes.Robie: You""re a thief.Only an amateur thief, of course, but it will help you to sympathize with us professionals.Robie concludes by asserting that when items are stolen from hotel rooms, "they don""t come looking for you.