You can""t eat he venetian blinds.I just had ""em installed on Wednesday.Jake, wearing a white-colored suit, offers him a stiff drink instead: "Down the hatch." Jake supports Curly""s belief that his wife is unfaithful and no good: "What can I ell you, kid? You""re right.Half are dumb and the other half are dumber.One of the hopeful peroxide-blonde chorus girls named Lorraine Fleming (Una Merkel) (wearing an odd Tartan outfit) has something going with Andy (that has allowed her to get a spot in he chorus).She persuaded her "Lover Boy" to kill her husband Albert, editor ofMotor Boatingmagazine, after having her spouse take out a $48,000 insurance policy - with a double-indemnity clause." While various documentary-style shots of post-war, divided, fragmented and occupied Vienna (a ""frontier"" city dividing East and West - and governed by four Allied forces) are surveyed, an anonymous voice-over (from director Carol Reed) delivers a first-person prologue in the original UK version - suggesting that he had black market connections.