A Shiva lingam (possibly one of the five lost Sankara stones "with magical properties") had been stolen from their shrine, and the village had been under a curse of famine and misery ever since.Gower.On the streets of town, townspeople kid with him about his upcoming trip.With friends Ernie (Frank Faylen), the taxi driver, and Bert (Ward Bond), the cop [It has been hypothesized that their names were derived from the Bert and Ernie characters onSesame Street], he calls himself "a rich tourist" and asks o be driven home in style.Beryl: You mean likeme, huh? Listen, bub, I connect with ya - ya ain""t over my head.Adam promises Warren to "get a conviction on an attempted murder, or first-degree assault..."In one of the film""s most famous and economical sequences, an almost five minute shot without a single camera movement or cut, Amanda (at the left) interviews deceived, dumb blonde Doris (at center right) in the women""s prison""s detention area, while a white-uniformed correction officer sits in the mid-background looking through an open door.When she wrestles with him for the tab, he first teases her, withholding the tab from her.But when he learns she""s "Joey Doyle""s sister," he gives her the working tab.She gives it to her humiliated father so he can work.Father Barry asks he rejected men who have been denied work: "What do you do now?...Is his all you do, just take it like this?...Huh? What about your union?" He is told that the lawless local union is mob-controlled by Johnny Friendly: "The waterfront""s tougher, Father, like it ain""t part of America.