In the form of an office memo, he explains to the firm""s Claims Manager Barton Keyes (Edward G.Robinson) how he committed the "perfect" crime hat wastooperfect:Office memorandum.""Walter Neff to Barton Keyes, Claims Manager, Los Angeles, July 16, 1938.Dear Keyes: I suppose you""ll call this a confession when you hear it.Well, I don""t like he word ""confession."" I just want to set you right about something you couldn""t see because it was smack up against your nose.He stopped when Danny (with the baby in his arms) cried out: "Leave her alone." As Myers approached menacingly toward Danny, Tommy stuck another hypodermic into Myers"" neck, and viciously bashed him again with the pipe - leaving him ""dead"" on the floor.modern science.Lang""s ambitious, big-budgetMetropoliswas in production for almost two years (at ten times the expense of the average Hollywood production of the time).He eventually escaped to Thailand and arrived in the US in 1980.[Note: Eleven years after winning his Oscar, Ngor was shot to death outside his apartment near Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.Plot SynopsisThe titles and credits of the outrageous, fast-moving story, filmed from a sketchy script that often left the actors befuddled and bewildered (and forced to improvise), are displayed in a lace-lined Valentine""s book.