At the nearby bar, a suave and glib Nick Charles (William Powell), a retired former sleuth, made a memorable first appearance in the film." While trying to diagnose the not-uncommon "episode," although there is "nothing physically wrong with Danny" and he has no serious malady, the soft-spoken doctor describes that the reaction was brought on "by emotional factors - and they rarely occur again.But when you""re buying for 100 stores, you get it for less, so you sell it for 17 cents....When you put on one prologue, it""s too expensive.But when the same prologue plays 25, 50, 100 houses, it doesn""t cost a cent more, get it?...The same scenery, same costumes, put them on once and they stay put on....Play them all over Chicago, all over the country.Exhibitors everywhere will be tickled pink to get ready-made prologues....It""s a cinch, because you can give them swell prologues - cheaper than they can put hem on themselves.When he called down with excitement: "We""re almost there! Can you hear me? I know which way to go" - he realized that there was no response from the Dwarves below.The first pursuit car follows the objects and goes airborne for a few moments before crashing below.The other vehicles screech to a halt at the guard rail on the cliffside.The fantastic lights in the sky fuse to become one while they recede, and then at a tremendous velocity, they split into three points of light before climbing and disappearing into the cloud cover.