The hesitant and nervously-awkward adolescent Boy looked away from the Girl to appear nonchalant as he turned over the candy box to reveal the modified price tag, and then feigned indifference." The war film often showed graphic violence and involved dozens of uses of the F-word and a few scenes of pot-smoking to express how the Vietnam War was not really aRambo-style adventure or noble mission.He answered: "Yesterday, I gave her a thousand dollars." Police detective Lt.John Guild (Nat Pendleton) immediately suspected that the missing Wynant was Julia""s murderer, because there was no sign of the money:MacCaulay: Perhaps it was a robbery.]Plot SynopsisAs the film opens, a struggling, sassy newspaper columnist Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is threatened with being fired (along with many others who are considered "deadwood" after a change in the paper""s ownership) by her new managing editor Henry Connell (James Gleason) because her writing has too much "lavendar and old lace" and lacks "fireworks.