The Arrival in Moscow - With the Empress:The domineering Empress Elizabeth Petrovna (Louise Dresser) was enthroned on a gaudy imperial platform before a giant backdrop of a twisted, ghoulish, two-headed, avenging winged double-eagle statue.He also passed the local Presbyterian church in the process of being built.The mysterious, roguish, bearded, well-dressed frontier drifter (unidentified at first) was named John Q.Soon, they approached Alderaan.On the Death Star, Governor Tarkin - feeling betrayed - ordered the termination of the deceitful Princess Leia.(Walsh had also directed Cagney in two other films:Strawberry Blonde (1941)andA Lion Is In the Streets (1953).In the end, retired sleuth Nick Charles resolved the crime and assembled all of the major characters (and suspects) at a New Years' Eve dinner party to reveal the devious killer.