"Visual gags in the comic scenes included a prolonged cross-country car chase, a pratfall into a mansion""s swimming pool, changing facial expressions in a portrait, and tramps scampering onto boxcars, among others." Kurtz is also an admirer of Martins"" pulp novels, who flashes the book "Oklahoma Kid" at him.They return to the scene of the accident outside of Harry""s apartment, where Kurtz tells what he witnessed.The film""s tagline proclaimed:"Your eyes...Your ears...Your senses...will be overwhelmed."However, the surreal, epic-type film counterposes its superlative photography with a slim tale of working class protagonists, old with sparse dialogue and the jarring, quirky, drawling, and dispassionate, colloquial voice-over narration of a streetwise, but unschooled 13 year old girl (Manz)."Clark trudged through frozen, snow-covered landscapes with floating blocks of small icebergs (within the Arctic), with only a backpack (with the green glowing crystal and his red/blue/yellow blanket) and a plaid winter coat.It""s a fiend." It was the first hideous view of misshapen and deafened Quasimodo (Charles Laughton), the ugly hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame - only part of his deformed face was visible.