Money floated in the air into the LA harbor, as Riggs and Murtaugh used ropes to rappel down onto the deck of the ship.As with many of Hitchcock""s films, there were Academy Award nominations, but no Oscars.This film was nominated for three awards: Best Story and Screenplay (Ernest Lehman), Best Color Art Direction/Set Decoration, and Best Film Editing (George Tomasini).[The Yellow Man and Lucy are stylistically linked together as outcasts, hunched over to seek introspective refuge from the hostile realities and fears of the world - cold, loneliness, and hunger.This was not he first time the subject matter was performed.The screenplay by Howard Koch was based on W.Somerset Maugham""s mid-1920s London stage play (that featured Gladys Cooper in the lead role).Then, it was a Broadway play that opened in 1927 (with Katharine Cornell), followed by Paramount Studios"" talkie of the same name in 1929 with Academy-Award nominated Jeanne Eagels (in her sound film debut) as the female protagonist Leslie Crosbie.The sinister, Dr.Fu Manchu-like agent Yen Lo with a long mustache, introducing himself as from the "Pavlov Institute," has also been assigned to watch Shaw - he giggles about the North American profit-making Soviet front led by Zilkov:Profit? Fiscal year? (Tsk, tsk, tsk.