When he moves toward the edge, the narrator - an attractive blond young woman (Joan Fontaine) walking nearby shouts oward him, fearing he is on the verge of suicide:Woman: No! Stop!Man: What the devil are you shouting about? Who are you? What are you staring at?Woman: I""m sorry, I didn""t mean to stare, but I, I only thought.With a knife, he cut his own palm and let the blood drip onto Zod""s face, as he lamented: "You flew too close to the sun.The doctor was being urged to perform a ""brain-cutting"" lobotomy on the traumatized Catherine, who had broken down and had seemingly become totally mad.Huxley is bound to lose.One of the speakeasy regulars, bootlegging Baravelli (Chico Marx) works in the back room, filling expensive-looking whiskey bottles labeled Scotch and Rye with inferior booze.The main character, Freder (Gustav Frohlich), he young, pampered, (motherless) son of a ruling, aristocratic capitalist - the autocratic master of Metropolis, is introduced as he plays hide-and-seek with the ladies.