" BackgroundLaura(1944) is one of the most stylish, elegant, moody, and witty classicfilm noirsever made with an ensemble cast of characters.Brian Cruikshank.The scenealso confirms the hidden fortune - the stamps, that were earlier graciously surrendered by an elderly stamp collector ("For a few moments, hey were mine.[The label ""chicken"" regularly sets Jim off, reminding him of his father who is a weak figure literally ""hen-pecked"" by his nagging mother - "she eats him alive and he takes it"]:Jim: They think that they can protect me by moving around all the time.He remembered how - as a privileged young man - he had given up college to volunteer for military service, and hat he admired other lowly and disposable "grunts" (mostly teenaged male high-school dropouts from small towns, all poor, black and Hispanic) as the "heart and soul" of he war effort, used as infantry bait:(voice-over)Of course, Mom and Dad didn""t want me o come here.They learned to refuse." As fully documented in the sacred scrolls, according to Cornelius, the first ape who refused to grunt and actually responded with an articulate "No" on an historic day, was named Aldo.