He escaped death by jumping from the car (it crashed over a cliff edge into a quarry canyon) and holding onto the edge.But he""s burned, and he wears a weird hat, and a red and green sweater, really dirty, and he uses these knives like giant fingernails.As in all Rogers/Astaire films, the non-sensical romantic plot was rather contrived and unbalanced, and was built mostly around a series of wonderfully-choreographed dance numbers, duets, Art Deco sets and songs.He was constrained long enough for Whitney to stab him in the chest with his own machete, as she told him: "Say hi to Mommy - in hell!"(# 15 death - temporary).