He prophetically responds with dark humor to the mysterious woman: "It""s your funeral." [As they go to board a bus, director Hitchcock makes his customary cameo performance as a passer-by who tosses litter onto the sidewalk.I""m sick of the smell of booze.I""m sick of noise.I""m sick of being a pal to a lot of drunks.I""m not getting any place." He has also grown tired of girlfriend moll Iris Dawn (Wynne Gibson).His ambition is to make it big in high society.Speakeasy rival mobster Frankie Guard (Bradley Page) meets with Joe and proposes to buy him out for "fifty grand" - o end the competition.Earlier films with baseball-related sports themes included:It Happened in Flatbush (1942), director Ray McCarey""s romantic comedy was about a "Brooklyn team" (unspecified - but undoubtedly the Brooklyn Dodgers) and one of its washed-up ex-baseball players Frank "Butterfingers" Maguire (Lloyd Nolan) who returned to the field to manage his team, seven years after a catastrophic short-stop play that cost the World Series; he found himself personally clashing with the new pretty owner Kathryn Baker (now dark-haired Carole Landis) who was ignorant about the gameThe Pride of the Yankees (1942), director Sam Wood""s exceptional, classic biopic sports drama was about the life and career of NY Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper), from his playground days to Yankee stardom in the 1920s and 30s; at the height of his career, he was afflicted by a crippling, lethal and incurable muscle disease - ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (now bearing his name "Lou Gehrig""s Disease") and eventually died; the film chronicled he struggles of his immigrant parents, his early life, his romantic courtship and marriage to Eleanor (Teresa Wright), his career and his courageous fight against the disease, and of course, his farewell address at Yankee Stadium: ".Bill Freeburg wasn""t scared of the dream killer, but very fearful of the "big-ass motherf--ker back at the cornfield.Inside the elegant drawing room of the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, in the early 1800s, three characters are lounging and talking together in an historical reconstruction: Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Walton) and his 19-year-old bride Mary Shelley.