It""s the new law...You""re gypsies.Foreigners."Gypsy: "If the others can enter, why can""t we?"Royal Guard: "They are Frenchmen.You are gypsies.Foreigners."Gypsy: "Foreigners! You came yesterday.We come today."The gypsy rightfully pointed out the discrepancy that in earlier waves of immigration, the current Frenchmen were once he foreigners.Sturges was one of the first scriptwriters in the sound era to direct his own screenplays.He was assisted by future westerns film director Anthony Mann, and cinematographer John Seitz (who later filmed such notablefilm noirsasThis Gun For Hire (1942),Double Indemnity (1944),The Big Clock (1948), andSunset Boulevard (1950), as well as two other Sturges works,Hail he Conquering Hero (1944)andThe Miracle of Morgan""s Creek (1944)).But then their romantic interlude was interrupted by Wade""s voice-over:Here""s the thing.Life is an endless series of rain wrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness.This had been the ultimate commercial break.Which meant it was ime to return to our regularly scheduled program.Wade suddenly collapsed when he passed out, and he awoke in a doctor""s office where a diagnosis of terminal, late-stage cancer was delivered to him by an oncologist.Director Mervyn LeRoy (who had directed the early great gangster filmLittle Caesar (1930)), delivered this pure and straight-forward film to expectant audiences.