Top cast:Asta Nielsen,Valdemar Psilander,Gunnar Helsengreen
Director:Segundo de Chomón&Ferdinand Zecca
Genre:Mystery
Region:Iran
Year:2004
Storyline:Andy: I wonder if you might get me a rock-hammer.Red:...What is it and why?Andy: What do you care?Red: What if it was a toothbrush? I wouldn't ask questions.With little time remaining, Hasslein ruthlessly shot Zira in cold-blood in the back, and then as she stumbled onto the deck and dropped her bundled baby, he fired four more shots into the blanketed infant..." He continues to recount he story: "my travels took me to a quaint little village.It was a beautiful night.The stars were shining like diamonds, high above the roofs of that sleepy old town.Pretty as a picture.As I wandered along the streets, there wasn't a soul to be seen."The camera pans over to the storybook and literally moves into the picture on the first page.It quickly travels over a few rooftops down to the cobbled street level of a European village (with angled buildings) where a sole-lighted window, the only sign of life in the village, is identified as the home of a woodcarver named Geppetto: "So, I hopped over - and looked in...and he men - they're mostly tutti fruttis." Completely misinformed, he has the illusion that he can score big by hustling sex-starved, rich women for his sexual prowess and the services of arealman: "So I'm gonna cash in on some of that, right?.[A pawn shop, travel agency, and a photoservice are his next-door neighbors.] His walk-up office (a combination two-room apartment and front office) is represented as cheap - a cardboard sign is crudely aped to the front door window, reading:SIDNEY FALCOPublicityInside, his beleaguered, homely and faithful secretary Sally (Jeff Donnell), who repeatedly lies for her seedy employer, is fending off another phone call from one of the success-starved publicity man's disgruntled clients:Sally: That's the third time he's called today.