As he left his work, he heard children singing and playing "Ring around the rosie..." at the front entrance, while carrying the culture in vials within his brown leather briefcase.[It was revealed that the IMF believed that he was delivering the viral culture to the US government, to expose criminal use of the ""Chimera"" sample.The view blurs and fades, signifying a flashback (for virtually the remainder of the film) from the unknown woman""s written deathbed confession, as she tells of her lifelong, almost 20 year obsession with a pianist and actually relives the feelings and thoughts of her life.This film has also influenced other future filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs (1992)), and David Fincher (Se7en (1995)).Making matters even more difficult was the film""s romantic sub-plot regarding the King""s daughter Princess Gwendolyn (Angela Lansbury) who was being reluctantly forced into a political-marital alliance, and the use of a hypnotic spell by her evil lady-in-waiting and ambitious court witch Griselda (Mildred Natwick) to hypnotize Hawkins (or "Giacomo") into being her dashing lover.