The film declined to provide a tagline, instead choosing imagery over words on its poster, which featured in 40""s art deco, the detective - his back facing the viewer, smoking a cigarette, with the smoke emanating from it forming the visage of the heroine, signifying the setting, the mood, and symbolism of the film without uttering a single phrase.From the resulting infection, he goes deaf in his left ear.In the afternoons, George works at the local drugstore owned by "old man" Mr.Gower (H.B.Warner).Walking to work with his friends, they stand in awe and watch a horse-driven, hearse-like carriage pass by, carrying Mr." As he tin-foil was peeled up and rolled back from the subject""s face, he nose and face of nebbish, nerdy and stupefied-looking Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) still wearing thick black-rimmed glasses was slowly disclosed.An inferior sequel was produced later in the decade -Oliver""s Story (1978)pairing a still-grieving Ryan O""Neal with Candice Bergen.The noblewoman is very brittle, self-absorbed and vain - illustrated by how she looks at herself in a hand-held mirror and talks to herself:It""s really a wretched morning, wretched.