BackgroundDark Victory(1939) is a sentimental, tragic and moving melodrama (a "weepie" or "woman""s picture") from Warner Bros...My idea is that the government just lends us the money for the camp and then the boys pay it back by sending pennies, nickels, nothing more than a dime.You do it in the streets..."Plot SynopsisThe noirish crime film opened with a classic voice-over under a black screen (the voice of director Scorsese himself):You don""t make up for your sins in a church.Ned blurted out his own hidden greed: "I had wished you were gonna be loaded.""Matty" presented Ned with a wrapped gift package of a fedora hat - with a promise hat it would protect him from "it" (Ned had spoken about ""shit"" (not rain) that would come down on him, and now, she was prophetically referring o the crisis that would soon strike him down):From now on, whenitstarts coming down on you, I""ll be there to protect you."The humans were set free, but they stood outside the gate staring at Caesar, with MacDonald as their spokesperson, demanding real and total freedom rather than second-class citizenry: "What have we to be grateful for? If you mean to set us free, then free us completely.