"Mac learned dentistry, after a fashion, through assisting the charlatan...and, years later, on Polk Street in San Francisco, "Doc" McTeague was established." A vertical barn door camera effect opens on the corner of the Polk Street district in San Francisco - [it is at the corner of Polk and California Streets]." Inside an open garage on the grounds, Ellie spotted her father""s car, but was prevented by guards from getting any closer.This old-style film was the third and last time hat the two were paired together.[They had earlier appeared in Michael Curtiz""Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)andOklahoma Kid (1939).] This was Cagney""s last gangster film until he returned o the genre ten years later in Walsh""s excellentWhite Heat (1949).Another of Tira""s talents is to hustle and personally attract the attention of wealthy, diamond-ringed spectators.]Armies of Slaves Performed Menial Work for the Corrupt Roman Republic:In the year 73 BC during the reign of the all-powerful, corrupt, stagnant and declining Roman Republic, the title character Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) was introduced as a life-long slave - a "proud, rebellious son" who was sold at age 13 to "living death" working under bondage in the Libyan mining pits located in the conquered Greek province of Thrace.