Thepremise or thematic plot of the film was similar to Raoul Walsh""sA Lion Is In the Street (1953)with James Cagney, and the biographical dramaBlaze (1989)with Paul Newman.On a typical day after school, he changed into his new but ill-fitting Spider-Man suit in an alleyway, and combated various petty crimes (i."] As he chalks the end of his cue, Felson rhetorically bemuses: "How much am I gonna win tonight? Ten grand, I""m gonna win ten grand in one night.The film""s producer, David O.Selznick, had originally wanted Vivien Leigh for Ingrid Bergman""s role.Plot SynopsisThe credits are played above a view of the city of Miami, Florida in April 1946, set low on the horizon.Early the next morning, Eliza""s hard-drinking, disreputable, scruffy-looking father Alfred (Stanley Holloway) is looking for his daughter in the Covent Garden market area - boasting to his friends Jamie (John Alderson) and Harry (John McLiam) that he deserves a paternal handout:I give her everythin""; I give her the greatest gift hat a human being can give to another: life.