Due to confusion over the varying, inconsistent moods within the film, the marketing campaign decided to focus on Veronica Lake""s peekaboo hairdo instead, with the tagline:"VERONICA LAKE""s ON THE TAKE.Before escaping, Travis (using armor-piercing bullets) shot and killed young rookie cop Edwards who had tailed along ("Another baby," mourned Murtaugh), and had thought it was safe to take cover behind a steel barrel.[Note: Astaire appeared with Bing Crosby inHoliday Inn (1942), in which Crosby also did an incredibly-dated ""blackface"" number.Margaret: He was rather mean to her, my dear.Dinah: Did he really sock her?Margaret: Please, Dinah.Dinah: Did he really?Margaret: Darling.You go out and wait in the car.Dinah: The papers were full of ""innundo.""Margaret: Of what?Dinah: Of ""innundo."" ""Cruelty and drunkenness,"" it said.Dinah also thinks that Tracy is pretty mean for not inviting her own father to the wedding: "She""s sort of, well you know, hard, isn""t she?" Dinah""s mother corrects her thinking about Tracy""s inflexibility:Margaret: Certainly not.