As Neo moved to the door on the left to make the irrational choice of saving her, the Architect chuckled: "Hope.McAdam stated - "If I hit it, I win! If I miss it, I lose! You don""t have to shoot!" When the object was tossed into the air as a target, McAdam""s shot was decisive, and he was declared the winner of the close contest.Cain.Director Robert Aldrich""s previous films had only been wo routine Westerns and one film noir:Vera Cruz (1954)andApache (1954),andWorld for Ransom (1954).Her face glows above her typewriter as she fabricates a letter to the editor, written by an imaginary, idealist underdog "John Doe" character, in which "the disgusted American citizen" protests against four years of his own unemployment, hypocrisy, greed, inhumanity and other injustices, miseries and mistreatments suffered by the nation""s poor on account of big business tycoons, corrupt moguls and slimy politicians.