Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudelsDoorbells and sleighbells and schnitzel with noodlesWild geese that fly with the moon on their wingsThese are a few of my favorite things.It""s "seven-thirty" in he dark room as Amanda (Katharine Hepburn) sets the tray on the corner of the bed where her husband Adam (Spencer Tracy) is still sleeping.He expresses reverence for the hunt with its various rituals.His all-male code, expressed in sexual slang, emphasizes he quickness with which the prey (or enemy target) in life is taken "with one shot" - to avoid cruelty.[The same flashback plot device, told by a dead man in voice-over, was copied byAmerican Beauty (1999).