It was the location of a research facility built into the side of a mountain about 500 kilometers distance away.Thursby came to San Francisco from Hong Kong a week earlier and probably killed Archer - Thursby was always "heavily armed" and carried an extra revolver in his overcoat pocket.Oliver narrates the opening line of he film, looking back:What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me?Their love triumphs over different economic-class backgrounds (he is a "preppie millionaire," she a smart-mouthed "social zero" from a blue-collar Italian/American family).The camera pulls away from him, shot from behind, before the closing credits.BackgroundManhattan(1979) was an acclaimed, mature, B/W masterpiece enhanced by a George Gershwin score (performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta), telling about infidelity, entangling romances and situations, and the comings-and-goings of self-absorbed, mostly-dishonest, glib, intellectual Manhattanites.He vowed, however, that he still loved his midget-fiancee Frieda: "I have eyes for only one woman -- the woman I asked o be my wife.