..In the picture""s prologue during the narration, the camera pauses at the tall iron gates of Manderley, an English country mansion, and then moves through them.The saucy maid reinforces Gregory""s plotting to keep Paula isolated by questioning Paula about her wishes to go out.She denied mocking him by laughing at him for being so enamoured and lovesick with her.Hans told her of the frequent ridicule he often faced from ""big"" people: "They don""t realize I""m a man, with the same feelings they have.French detective, Inspector Pascal Popil (Dominic West), who had lost his entire family in the war and specialized in war crimes, viewed the butcher""s disembodied corpse, detecting a scent of cloves oil from the blade, while searching for the missing head.