On the train journey to the lakes, Paula is seated next to Miss Thwaites (Dame May Whitty), a garrulous Englishwoman who loves murder mysteries, gardening and digestive biscuits." He prepared to subdue all of Grissom""s men by ""greasing"" them and by intimidation, to take over his empire, and he fried oily gangster Antoine "Tony" Rotelli (Edwin Craig) with a concealed electrified hand-shake buzzer after being challenged.Altman""s rambling, semi-improvised film, shot almost entirely in sequence, featured great cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond who created an antique-like, golden-hued, sepia-toned, painterly portrait of the unsightly town in the early 1900s.After exiting the throne room, the enraged Ren bashed his helmet repeatedly against the inside of an elevator, and left it in pieces.