The opening image shows a flat, paved highway road in rural Oklahoma lined by telephone poles.A small figure walks out of the distance toward the camera.At a crossroads (a symbol of America""s plight in the late 30s), one of the poles at the left of the frame leans dramatically askew." With an inventive finger-induced smile, produced by pushing up the sides of her mouth with two fingers, she satisfies his demands by substituting a symbolic smile for a real one.Gruber impersonated a well-dressed City Engineer""s office employee to orchestrate the major theft, helped by Walsh""s officers.]During the projection of the film in the theater, he Boy/Projectionist tired, dozed off and fell asleep in the projection room - he would experience a wish-fulfillment dream offering solutions o the mystery while imagining himself as a heroic and accomplished sleuth.