He is drinking and deliberately closed off from the outside world, haunted by his liquor-induced memories of the choppers, gunfire and the war.Gower.On the streets of town, townspeople kid with him about his upcoming trip.With friends Ernie (Frank Faylen), the taxi driver, and Bert (Ward Bond), the cop [It has been hypothesized that their names were derived from the Bert and Ernie characters onSesame Street], he calls himself "a rich tourist" and asks o be driven home in style.The film parallels and pre-dates Hitchcock""sPsycho (1960)by a few years - similarities include actress Janet Leigh in various states of undress who is victimized in an out-of-the-way motel managed by a creepy "night man" (Gunsmoke""sco-star Dennis Weaver)....We got a lot of cotton stored up.Call it stolen cotton if you want to, but we""ve got it.But it won""t do us good unless we get a man on the selling end of the business....Now, we want you go to Memphis like a regular cotton grower.Set up an office and...There""s a good, fat commission in it for you, too.Joe argued it was now the time for the educated Marvin (who was given "learning" by Norwood) to pay back his kinfolk by using his intelligence to side with the tenant-farmers against his exploitative employer Norwood:Now, you""re under obligations to him.Told in flashback, the mediocre Salieri was slowly consumed with distaste and driven insane as he recognized Mozart""s incredible and transcendent musical genius, but was tormented with insecurity and jealousy - a Cain and Abel story.