《Cavalcade (1933)》Storyline
In costume (with the mustache and scar), Michael read from the script:Michael: Oh, sweetheart, do you know what it was like waking up in Paris that morning, seeing the empty pillow where - Wait a minute! Cover your breasts....You simply raise more money than you really need...Well, you did it yourself, only you did it on a very small scale....You raised two housand dollars more than you needed to produce your last play....You didn""t go all the way.You see, if you were really a bold criminal, you could have raised a million...You could have raised a million dollars, put on a sixty thousand dollar flop and kept the rest.The two put their heads together to speculate that they might never be caught or audited for overselling shares in a production that was sure to lose money." Meanwhile, the elite lived in a fortified walled-off city known as Fiddler""s Green, bordered on three sides by rivers and lorded over by Paul Kaufman (Dennis Hopper), a rich and powerful feudal overlord and opportunistic super-capitalist...swallowed half that river.Thanks."Johnny: "What for?"Cullen: "For pullin"" me out."Johnny: "Man, I didn""t pull you out.I kept you from pullin"" me in."The convicts managed to kill a frog, and as they devoured it over a fire (how did they start a fire with the drenching wet conditions, and often light cigarettes with matches?), Johnny advised Cullen to be less sensitive about racial epithets: ("You""re just too sensitive, man.On a foggy night in London at Thornton Square during the Victorian era, a bystander reads from aLondon Standardnewspaper that Alice Alquist, a famed opera singer (with an alliterative name) has been mysteriously murdered:THORNTON SQUARE MURDER UNSOLVEDSTRANGLER STILL AT LARGEThe recent murder of Alice Alquist, the famous prima donna.