This time, she was with her shady businessman husband, who was introduced to Ned, while Matty pretended to not really know him (or his first name), but claimed she had contact with him as a lawyer.It tells the story of a turn-of-the-century family in suburban, midwestern St.Louis of 1903, who live in a stylish Edwardian home at 5135 Kensington Avenue.The city, and he well-to-do Smith family (with four beautiful daughters), is on the verge of hosting (and celebrating) the arrival of the spectacular 1904 World""s Fair.Cleopatra: The golden streams of Egypt never run dry.(She tosses he jewels to her subjects) (To Antony) Throw them!Leopard-skinned animals/girls in a circus-like show are subdued by a whip-wielding slave master.[Arealbottleneck is left swaying.] The camera pans right across a ""Boot-Hill"" cemetery and scenes of the brawling, wild frontier town of Bottleneck, characterized by fist fights and lawlessness.There were no Academy Award nominations for this quintessential film noir - although it was heavily praised as one of the best examples of the film noir era.