Con-man Gantry is telling risque jokes to a table of other similarly-employed gents.He is lustful, coarse, loud, forceful ambitious, motivated by an easy dollar, golden-tongued, and often drunk.Dobisch (Ray Walston) - he is phoning from a bar on 61st Street with a blonde who "looks like Marilyn Monroe" [a not-so-subtle critique of Wilder""s difficult star performer inSome Like It Hot (1959)] with a late-night request to borrow the apartment for forty-five minutes - the bargain is sweetened up with another deal and hint of promotion: "Look Baxter, we""re making out the monthly efficiency rating, and I""m putting you in the top en.I want quiet! Quiet from everybody," as his chair topples backwards off his majestic perch on the platform.]The amnesiac approached Zurich""s Gemeinschaft""s Bank the next morning - knowing the number of his safe-deposit box from the embedded capsule.