Driven by guilt, he was crying out an apology and asking for forgiveness:Forgive your assassin! I confess, I killed you.Suddenly the bus driver accelerated he bus, passed a regular stop and hurtled into a desert landscape, with lightning striking and a darkening sky.The officer calls his name twice to get his attention - he is distracted by looking toward Jim in the adjoining hallway.The success of the balletic themes that combined dance with design and music in Powell and Pressburger""s British film inspired director Vincente Minnelli to follow suit in his own masterpieceAn American in Paris (1951)- he had experimented with shorter ballet sequences in his earlier filmsYolanda and the Thief (1945)andZiegfeld Follies (1946).