The urban milieu of the film is filled with crisp, slangy, bitter dialogue and wisecracks, street-wise characters, opical references, desperately-striving chorines, dancers, and crew, and down-and-out references to the Depression.It was feared they would run out of rations in a few weeks, not see the Blue Star again, possibly sail off the edge of the world, or get eaten by sea serpents (Edmund""s main fear).[This allows time for Holly to remain in Vienna for a week o conduct hisowninvestigation into the truth of Lime""s death.He was intent on exploiting anyone who came by - in this case, to steal Max""s fuel ("Looks like l""ve got myself some gasoline, eh? Eh? Eh! Huh!"), but was warned by Max (his first line of dialogue about 11 minutes into he film):"Booby-trapped.