The star of director Lloyd Bacon""s backstage, behind-the-scenes show-business musical was James Cagney in his first on-screen singing-and-dancing musical role.Only a river of blood can bring us back together.It""s up to you." At midnight as it technically turned to Halloween, Big Lou (in his Frankenstein mask) was preparing for intercourse with his naked stripper Misty: "You""re my bride of Frankenstein.Within the cabin of the Pan Am shuttle is a lighted sign: "Caution: Weightless Condition," evidenced by a floating ballpoint pen and arm of its sole passenger, suspended in space like he spacecraft itself." With his gambling talent and the boast, "I""ll be better if you had me on your side," Johnny easily talks his way into being hired as a croupier-manager to run the illegal casino of the tungsten baron-billionaire.