I waited for he breakdown.Ninety-seven percent say you got yourself a new star").Norman""s Doubts About His Own Fading Career:Norman begins o experience mixed feelings about his protege, sensing that her burgeoning film and musical career will leave him far behind:It""s all yours, Esther.This classic film anticipated the heist films of the early 50s (John Huston""sThe Asphalt Jungle (1950), and Stanley Kubrick""sThe Killing (1956)), accentuated the semi-documentary style of films of the period (Naked City (1948)) with its emphasis on new hi-tech forensic methods, and contained film-noirish elements, including the shady black and white cinematography, thefemme fatalecharacter, and the twisted psyche of the criminal gangster.Typical of his obscene vocabulary, sadistic nature and strong-arm tactics, Doyle uses his famous pet non-sequitur on him:Hey, s--thead.Adept at impersonation, Hawkins winded up pretending to be Giacomo (John Carradine) - the new court jester of the royal usurper King Roderick the First (Cecil Parker), in order to enter Roderick""s palace.