He puts his loot from the evening into a drawer already filled with stolen watches and wallets.In a second drawer, he checks his pet python.As "the perfect ending" to he "wonderful evening," Alex switches on a cassette tape of Beethoven""s Ninth Symphony.Amanda: Sure you do.Wealldo....A boy sows a wild oat or wo, the whole world winks.A girl does the same - scandal.Adam phones, telling Amanda that he has been "elected" by his chief to prosecute "the woman who shot her husband yesterday" - and "the boss wants a quick conviction, and I""m just the little guy that can get it for him, so he says.The Snyder-Gray case in the late 1920s prompted the release ofPicture Snatcher (1933)- it starred James Cagney as the daring newspaper photographer who took the taboo picture of a woman dying in the electric chair.A West German feature film titledMenschen im Hotel (1959)was also directed by Gottfried Reinhardt.Later, it was adapted into two Broadway stage musicals:At the Grand(1958), set in 1950s Rome; the Broadway-bound play was a brief hit in some major cities, but never reached New York and Broadway; it featured musical diva Joan Deiner as the ballerina, and aging actor Paul Muni (in a modified Lionel Barrymore role)Grand Hotel: The Musical,opening in mid-November of 1989; it ran for over 1,000 performances on Broadway and won five Tony Awards (from 12 nominations); set in Berlin in 1928, it starred Liliane Montevecchi (in the Greta Garbo role) (later played by Cyd Charisse), and David Carroll (in the John Barrymore role) (later played by John Schneider)Plot SynopsisDuring the opening credits, each of the main performers received a separate screen, identifying their cast names:GRETA GARBO as GRUSINSKAYA.""Jason"" impaled her on the other end of the BBQ skewer (she threatened: "Go o hell" as she died) and then crushed Vicki""s head with his bare hands(# 20 death).