Harold: Me?Mildred: You don""t care how much you take me away from people I like.Amelia: Harold, are you listening to me?Harold: Oh yes, yes, dear, go on, go on...Amelia: What did I say last?Harold: Yes, yes, every word of it, yes..Mildred: I never knew such an ungrateful father.Harold: (to Mildred) Listen, you""ve all got to realize one thing hat I (he tentatively glances in the direction of his wife, and henwhispers so his wife won""t hear) am the master of this household.If Gittes returns to the house to see her later, she requests: "Please call first." The camera dallies on Evelyn""s mysterious face as he leaves.Using as an entry pass one of the business cards he lifted from Yelburton""s office, Gittes is easily allowed admission by police guards through the gates into the Oak Pass Reservoir when mistaken as Yelburton.He waves his cane and exclaims: "Whoopee! Hot diggity!"After a change of scene, Gerry""s husband Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea), a poor, struggling inventor and visionary architect, is in his workshop pitching his plans to construct a futuristic city airport to an unenthusiastic, potential investor.)In the late 1960s, the film""s sympathetic, revolutionary characters and its social criticism appealed to anti-authority American youth who were part of the counter-cultural movement protesting the Vietnam War, the corrupt social order, and the U.