They exited as the water cooler released a large bubble of air.Marlowe was at the start of a film-long quest.The two stood outside a Central Avenue, downtown Los Angeles nightclub-bar known as FLORIAN""s with a flashing neon sign (Marlowe: "The joint looked like trouble but that didn""t bother me.[The town""s name is consistently mis-pronounced in the film.] Agatha insists that her obnoxious mother Mrs.Hermisillo Brunch (Jessie Ralph) live with the family, that also includes two dreadful daughters.In one of the film""s first lines during a breakfast scene (accompanied by a sick-sounding trumpet playingThere""s No Place Like Home,) his grouchy mother-in-law complains to Agatha about an off-screen Egbert: "What""s he up to now?" She criticizes Egbert""s bad habits, threatening to move out and "go on the county" welfare instead, while complaining about her "lingering death":Well, I bet you anything he""s smoking up in his room again.An inferior sequel was produced later in the decade -Oliver""s Story (1978)pairing a still-grieving Ryan O""Neal with Candice Bergen.Budgeted at $4.55 million, the film was a box-office success, garnering $21.3 million.It was nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Walter Lang), Best Actress and Best Color Cinematography (Leon Shamroy), with five Oscars including Best Actor (Brynner), Best Music Score (Alfred Newman & Ken Darby), Best Color Art Director/Set Decoration, Best Color Costume Design, and Best Sound (Carlton W.She searched to no avail for Rick, until his bloodied body was heaved hrough the living room window from the outside.