The police fire shots at the fleeing hearse, and the mobsters retaliate with machine gun fire.The casket inside is riddled with bullets, and fluid gushes out all over the inside of the hearse.Instead of bearing a body, the casket is the first of many misleading disguises in the film - it is filled with bootleg whiskey.I believe it""s customary anyhow for the wife to bring suit.It has something to do with a husband being a gentleman, if you know what I mean? (She flicks her beaded sleeve).G.Wells""First Men in the Moon (1901).This film, Melies"" 400th and most notable film, was made on an astronomical budget for the time of 10,000 Francs - risky, but worthwhile since it was hugely successful.She""s cuckoo in the head." Maria approaches and holds out tickets owards them, asking: "Buy a ticket in the lottery?...Just a dollar." Marcus withdraws hree dimes (thirty cents) from his pocket in his hand, but quickly replaces them, and then scolds Maria: "Go ""long with you! Lotteries is against the law!" She persists and persuades Trina to buy a lottery ticket: "-- the butcher in the next block won twenty dollars he last drawing!" Marcus picks his ear and nose, but Trina takes a dollar out of her handbag and purchases one of the tickets.