..Smith reveals his crush on Senator Paine""s daughter Susan, and then entertains them by performing well-practiced bird calls.The series chronicled actual dockside events, labor racketeering in New York""s dockyards, and corrupt practices, and won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.According to Roman, Terry""s death was inevitable since she was "deeply depressed every three weeks or so.Plot SynopsisThe film has two sections - beginning with a fairly brief prologue in Venice.It opens with a realistic view of a back porch in a dark, back alley with brick walls, a garbage pail by a door, and a dog sniffing at the trash.