Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant), a factory worker and a self-professed radical and political anarchist is falsely accused (framed on trumped-up charges of arson and murder) in a small New England town by the factory owner Andrew Holmes (Charles Dingle), for setting fire to the Holmes Woolen Mill factory and killing its guard/foreman Clyde Bracken (Tom Tyler).A third girl: If she had a fifty dollar bill, what""s she doing here?Eve: It must have been counterfeit.34 million), and became the 10th highest grossing film of 1973.As a zany comedy, it was unexpected that it would receive Academy Awards nominations, although it was a nominee for Best Original Comedy Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America.Exasperated by the time they arrived at the Savoy Hotel, Jones forgot his derby hat in the cab.But he was able to directly ask for Van Meer""s opinion about "the possibility of a general war." Van Meer responded with only one despondent comment: ""My boy, I feel very old and sad - and helpless.The remainder of the film""s narrative is set in Paris.In the next scene, a clever transitionary scene from Venice to Paris, a Morse-Code like radio-transmitted signal is beamed from the top of a technology-transformed Eiffel Tower (viewed at night) - the signals shoot out like bolts of lightning (similar to the RKO Pictures opening trademark).