] Nick is pleased to fill the job: "That""s it.Burnin"" up.I""ll go tell my wife you""re gonna stay." Frank immediately has second thoughts, calls after Nick: "Your wife?", and removes the sign from the pyre, but replaces it in the flames when he sees Cora leaning back in the doorway of the cafe and gazing at him.The film was nominated for wo Academy Awards and lost both: Outstanding Production (or Best Picture) and Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn, her second nomination) - Hepburn lost to Bette Davis nominated for her role inDangerous (1935).Gus was unaware, only worried that Captain Cummings would reform he place and scare away the bar""s customers.[He had moved from NY to LA to join his wife who had taken a job there, from the last film.]A TV news broadcast in the terminal, with cutaways to a local hotel room where Colonel Stuart (William Sadler) was seen, described how deposed South American dictator Ramon Esperanza (Franco Nero) from the Republic of Valverde would be delivered for immediate extradition to the US (arriving at Dulles Airport in about three and a half hours).