At the landing, Dobbs recognizes one of the work gang, a motley, haggard crew of drifters and soldiers of fortune, as the man with whom he had a conversation on the bench during the morning.Anne: Yes.I needed that money.McPherson: The day you took out fifteen hundred dollars, Mr.Carpenter deposited thirteen hundred fifty.When you withdrew seventeen hundred, he deposited fifteen hundred fifty.Lydecker: (quipping) Maybe they were shooting crap?Anne: Oh, must I be insulted like this! (She stands, turns, and walks away.A delightful, fascinating, wonderful time.Among human beings.Go and wash your face and hands Heathcliff.And comb your hair so that I needn""t be ashamed of you in front of a guest.(Edgar walks into the room and stands next to Cathy)Ellen: Heathcliff! What are you doing in this part of the house? Go and look after Mr.).[Note: Walsh replaced director Anatole Litvak at the last minute.] This newsreel-like, semi-documentary, authentic-looking film, with both hard-hitting gangster genre action and romantic sentiment, shares a lot of similarities and is reminiscent of the greatest gangster films of the 30s, includingLittle Caesar (1930),Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932), andPublic Enemy (1931)." They both slip and collapse in a jumble on the floor, and she insults him by regarding his cloddishness as hopeless and unteachable - unfortunately within the hearing of the proprietor Mr.