Its stripped budget resulted in cheap-looking special effects.Nominated for two Razzie Awards: Worst Supporting Actress (Mariel Hemingway), and Worst Visual Effects.He is popular with the neighbor kids because he gives them American bubble-gum.One of his "very good friends in Paris" introduces himself in voice over:Adam Cook is my name.I""m a concert pianist.That""s a pretentious way of saying I""m unemployed at the moment.With sardonic wit and a droll, morose sense of humor, aspiring American concert pianist Adam Cook (Oscar Levant) explains hat he has won his eighth scholarship/fellowship to study abroad, is homesick and feels like "the world""s oldest child prodigy.Dan noticed his serious injuries (a hemorrhaging chest during the operation), worrying: "Alice, it""s too late."Spade is confronted by an innocent-looking, stunning brunette beauty, a nervy but cool client named "Ruth Wonderly" (Mary Astor).