Many of the film's major stars, including William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Ryan and Ben Johnson, were veterans of westerns with a more romantic view of the West in the 40s and 50s.This one featured a "dream world," sexually-deviant, sadistic, hideously-grotesque child killer, very different from the hulking, mask-wearing Jason Voorhees, and the lunatic homicidal escapee Michael Myers.They played with the paging machine system by pushing buttons - accidentally summoning a young errand boy and then Stubbs to the office.The Curator was skeptical: "Hamunaptra is a myth...It's all fairy tales and hokum." As the Curator looked at the map, it caught fire, and the 'lost city' part of the map was burned away.Ruin their grazing.Starve the livestock.Who's paying you to do that, Mr.Mulwray? That's what I want to know.Mulwray looks down and doesn't answer - he is still investigating the truth for himself.Gittes trails Hollis Mulwray, who spends most of his ime checking out the city's water supplies.Gittes spies on him with binoculars as a noisy fly buzzes around his head - but he doesn't understand Mulwray's paradoxical actions.