" Driscoll really believes her life is in jeopardy and is feeling protective of her safety: "This is no place for a girl," he tells her." On the phone, he lies to one of his disgruntled clients, jazz-club owner Joe Robard (Joseph Leon), insisting with sweet-talk that he purposefully asked Hunsecker towithholdan item until he could give it a "fine, fat paragraph." At the coat-check counter when he turned in his umbrella, Jones reached for the non-existent derby on his head - realizing hat he had forgotten it and left it behind somewhere ("I did have one").The extreme gore of many of the death/murder scenes was drastically cut, to satisfy the MPAA for an R-rating.