We""re now supporting Harrison").The principled reporter promptly quits his job.Although Stark loses the election to Harrison in a close race, Stark sweeps rural areas.The city vote decides the election, and a record number of votes are polled.Willie is joined at a bar for drinks by Sadie, Burden, and stuttering henchman Sugar Boy (Walter Burke) - a bodyguard and assistant who previously worked for his opponent Tiny Duffy.Philip""s older age, sophistication, low self-regard and self-deprecation, self-consciousness about his club-foot, and his obsessive introspection made his relationship with Mildred impossible and doomed from the start."The restaurant-lunch scene, the second scene in the film, is one of the film""s funniest.During the meal, Walter deliberately sits between Bruce and Hildy.He congratulates the bridegroom on his choice of a star reporter: "...You""re getting a great little girl for yourself...You""re getting something else too, Bruce, you""re getting a great newspaperman...One of the best I ever knew.Sorry o see her go.Darn sorry, Hildy." Bruce wonders if Hildy has any doubts about leaving the newspaper business and then realizes his is her first chance "to have a home and to be like you said - a human being, and I""m gonna make you take that chance.] The film was produced by Paramount Studios and veteran, low-budget horror film maker William Castle, best known for gimmicky, cheesy films such asThe Tingler (1959),House on Haunted Hill (1959), Mr.] The film""s major poster about the infamous couple romanticized violence and proclaimed: "They""re young.