..because he forgot to kill me...It emphasized the film""s uncompromising and grim story of an iron-willed, driven, dedicated, honest, incorruptible homicide detective (Glenn Ford) within a crooked and perverted society that is corrupt system at all levels (e.After phone calls to the hotel manager, who reports the complaint by phone to Horace in the room, Travers continues to dance around, toppling a marble statue from its pedestal.[Nineteen year old, James Dean-fixated Starkweather was joined by his fourteen year-old girlfriend during heir nine-day flight.The film spawned clones with similar themes, such as Brian DePalma""sObsession (1976), and director Kenneth Branagh""sDead Again (1991).