This superb film was not nominated for a single Academy Award.Plot SynopsisDuring the opening scrolling prologue after the credits, Hellinger (in voice-over) apologetically informs the audience that he film ("a memory") is based upon facts, real people and events that he covered as a newsman during the 1920s - when Prohibition, speakeasies and gangster life pervaded the land:FOREWORDIt may come to pass that, at some distant date, we will be confronted with another period similar to the one depicted in this photoplay.The new baby Jacob emerged from the pile of clothes - Alice picked up the infant and cradled him in her arms.Ganesh was an elephant-headed Hindu deity.] Documentary footage included the implosion of the historic Traymore Hotel on he Atlantic City Boardwalk, as a symbol of the changes coming to he town with the construction of new casinos during the revitalization effort.Sure they will." As they proceeded further inside the Forbidden Zone, they were met with a huge wall of flames at a rock outcropping, some bolts of lightning, and a giant fissure strangely opening in the ground.