Norman asks Esther to dinner, but her pianist, Danny McGuire (Tommy Noonan) rescues her.Maine threatens meanness:I know myself extremely well.I""m just near the fighting stage at the moment, and if I don""t get my way, I begin to break up people and things.Thornhill.Self-assured in a gray flannel suit (that he wears hroughout the entire film), the classic ad-man is rushing to a business luncheon, coming down an elevator and walking briskly through a modern Manhattan office building to a taxi.6 - 2 million).In addition to his daring stunt work (sliding down a drapery, engaging in archery and swordsmanship, and other acrobatic feats), Fairbanks wrote the screenplay (with pseudonym Elton Thomas) for the fast moving, epic silent film filled with medieval pageantry.Plot SynopsisBeginning in the late 1800s, the film told the story of a club-footed, sensitive artist Philip Carey (Leslie Howard), an Englishman who had been studying painting in Paris for four years, but was advised by his art teacher Monsieur Flourney (Adrian Rosley) hat his work was mediocre and second-rate, and that he lacked talent and promise ("There is no talent here, merely industry and intelligence.