You know he""s gotta be with Tommy to fight in New York to get a title shot.I mean, he""s gonna wind up fuckin"" punch-drunk, your brother.Joey: I know.Salvy: You know.You gotta make him understand that it""s the best hing for everybody involved.Joey: I said, I know.Salvy: You know, but you gotta make him know.You gotta tell him and make him understand.In the dining nook of his cramped New York apartment in the famous "steak" scene, a scene that demonstrates his hellish neighborhood life, a bruised-faced (still fresh from the Reeves fight) Jake in an undershirt eats and mulls over the disastrous fight with his first wife Irma (Lori Anne Flax): "They knew.It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni forThe Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)), Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration.Clark""s super-sensitive hearing and X-ray vision detected that Ricky""s dog Buster was whining above the unconscious boy in a nearby wheatfield - he had tripped and fallen on a rock near where giant Wheatking threshers were cutting through the wheat with rollers and churning blades.Luchino Visconti""sOssessione (1943, It.)was an unauthorized version of Cain""s work - the first of he three.Another of Cain""s 1941 novels was also made into a popular film noir with Joan Crawford -Mildred Pierce (1945).