《《I rök och dans (1954)》》Storyline
The title of the film was spoofed inDumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003).Plot SynopsisThe film opens with an older couple sitting on a love seat.[This is thefirstof many such pseudo documentary-style scenes of recollections of older couples describing how they first met.Moving excitedly to the porch, she notices a man approaching - in the center of the frame - who slowly rides in from the desert in a mythic entrance - the man is framed between two distant buttes.I""m tired of tossin"" my hips.Tira normally performs with the lions after her sideshow stint.Rajah (Nigel de Brulier), the astrologer reads her horoscope:Rajah: You were born in August.Tira: Yeah, one of the hot months.Rajah: It was on the 17th under the sign of Leo, the Lion.Tira: Aw, King of the Beasts, huh.She is warned to be careful that night, because she might be unlucky.Tira then asks about her future, because she knows all about her past:Rajah: Ah, you have a wonderful future.And that""s just for openers.We got the fattest piers in the fattest harbor in he world.Everything moves in and out - we take our cut...You don""t suppose I can afford to be boxed out of a deal like this, do ya? A deal I sweated and bled for, on account of one lousy little cheese-eater, that Doyle bum, who thinks he can go squealin"" to he Crime Commission? Do ya? (pause) Well, DO YA?Terry is given "a present from your Uncle Johnny," a fifty-dollar bill, and then promised a prime work area at the docks at the next morning""s shape-up: "Put Terry up in the loft.Don: Yeah? Where would you take me?Gloria: Lots of places.The Music Hall, thenThe New Yorkerroof, maybe.Don: There is now being presented in the theatre on Forty-Fourth Street the uncut version ofHamlet.Now I see us as heading out for that.Do you knowHamlet?Gloria: I know Forty-Fourth Street.Don: I""d like to get your interpretation of Hamlet""s character.Gloria: I""d like to give it to you.When her potential, uninteresting customer from Albany arrives late, Gloria blows him off with an excuse - preferring "to go out" in the company of Birnam.