George: How come? (He puts his arm tentatively around her shoulder)Alice: Well, remember how we put swimsuits in boxes six days a week?George: (He chuckles) Yeah.The morbid story was about a menacing, father-fixated, unstable, deranged, and darkly archetypalfemme fatalenamed Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney).In this first segment, the group was starting their momentous journey.The film received three Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects, Best Production Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, with no wins.It says here, you, uh, killed a man with your bare hands.We don""t use hands here, we use guns.Oh, and I""ll tell ya another thing we use for cons who don""t toe the mark.The whip! Understand?"He was paired with long-timer cellmate Hunk Houghton (Mickey Shaughnessy), a grumpy, washed-up ex-country western singer who had been in jail for 8 years.