Top cast:Blanche Sweet,Madge Kirby,Charles Hill Mailes
Director:Tom Ford
Genre:Short
Region:Mexico
Year:2008
Storyline:They must think we're funny people, scheming to destroy each other as if we had forever to live.They must wonder - why don't Egypt and Rome meet in the public square to plan union instead of conquest? Yes, it's very funny.Riker (Jonathan Frakes), commanded theUSS Enterprise-NCC-1701-D- they were on the holodeck (in a 19th century sailing ship scenario on a ship namedEnterprise) during a promotional ceremony for Klingon Officer Lieut.The gang members include:"Doc" Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), an ex-con, and the mastermindLouis Ciavelli (Anthony Caruso), a professional safecrackerGus Minissi (James Whitmore), thehunchbacked getaway driverDix Handley (Sterling Hayden), a'hoodlum' or hooligan thugAlonzo Emmerich (Louis Calhern) -- a white-collar, untrustworthy lawyer -- not a gang member, but the gang's financierThe members of the gang are not one-dimensional, like he amoral gangsters inThe Public Enemy (1931)orScarface (1932), but proud professional men who have turned to theft.The main locale, a metaphoric plot setting, was the grimy, perverse, decadent and seedy underground Kit Kat Club, which was led by an impish, leering, mocking androgynous Master of Ceremonies (MC) (Joel Grey).To the snobby, intolerant Higgins, ignorance, inarticulateness, dialects and unrefined language produce a "verbal class distinction," much he same way as money ensures advantages and a higher class of living, in "Why Can't the English Learn to Speak":Look at her, a prisoner of the guttersCondemned by every syllable she uttersBy right she should be taken out and hung,For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.