《Dumb Like a Fox (Short 1941)》Storyline
Dubose""s beautiful flowers.Jem whispers to Scout that he understands how his father practices courteous diplomacy:He gets her interested in something nice, so she forgets to be mean...Sure, yes, yes, he""s a millionaire, you know, like all the Yanks.But he""s eccentric.Oh, he is eccentric.What till I show ya...His bag to sleep in, a sleeping bag, he calls it.The song, equating Sean Thornton (or his grandfather who ""died in Australia...in a penal colony"") with the wild colonial boy Jack Dugan, continues:At the early age of sixteen years, he left his native home.He wears a dark priestly robe and has a distinctive, jagged widow""s peak on his forehead.Werdegast greets his old friend - or enemy: "It has been a long time Hjalmar.The years have been kind to you." Poelzig also takes a desirous, but repressed, covert interest in Joan.When they are alone together, Werdegast is outwardly cordial, but in a tense scene, he confronts and taunts his host Poelzig with raging animosity for betraying him (and thousands of other Hungarians) over fifteen years earlier.Poster taglines trumpeted: "Alfred Hitchcock engulfs you in a whirlpool of terror and tension! - He Thought His Love Was Dead, Until He Found Her in Another Woman.It brought film audiences to a new level of imagination and fantasy, and displayed legendary design with its massive palace sets.