Through various methods of interrogation, including telepathy (thought projections), visual projections (on a giant wall behind the subject), painful traumatic hypnosis (physical/mental torture), or verbally-spoken words, they gained information.(jokingly) Don""t get involved with me, Joe, I am twenty-six years old and I can""t even remember the name of the girl I was such good friends with, I wouldn""t get involved with her boyfriend.The film""s taglines were descriptive of the slightly depressing tale of two losers - a washed-up, wanna-be ex-gangster and a Canadian female emigre with broken dreams, who both found renewal and redemption through each other:Where dreamers can be winners.In one memorable scene, Jo rejects romance and marriage to wealthy neighbor and childhood acquaintance Laurie (Douglass Montgomery) who has just graduated from college - he tells her of his long and faithful love, but she cannot accept:You""ve kept away from me ever since I got back from college.