The element of choice, of chance.What if a child dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended for him or her? What if a child aspired to something greater? You were the embodiment of that belief, Kal.Quilty: What""s this, the deed to the ranch?Humbert: It""s your death sentence.Read it.Quilty: I can""t read, ah, mister.I never did none of that there book learnin"", ya know.Humbert: Read it, Quilty!Quilty: (He ridicules his own death sentence by play-acting and reading he confession note, written in verse, with a Gabby Hayes accent." He lost to Oscar-winning Anthony Quinn forLust for Life (1956).Other competitors for the award included Anthony Perkins inFriendly Persuasion (1956), Robert Stack inWritten on the Wind (1956)(the best of the choices), and Mickey Rooney inThe Bold and the Brave (1956).Powell would send his car for you someday...Of course, he would probably take one look at you and send you right back again, but then you have to expect that.His mother is still suffering the traumatic effects of separation from her husband.Elliott unwittingly widens the rifts in the already broken family (his father left for Mexico with another woman) and weakens the bonds that hold hem together during their conversation:Mom: It""s not that we don""t believe you, honey.