Verna: It""s the only place I don""t freeze.(Appealing to Cody) I been cold for a week, Cody.Not even a fire.Who""s gonna see a little bit of smoke a hundred miles from nowhere?Lying on the sofa, Zuckie moans piteously with his face and hands bandaged without a doctor""s aid.As a result of his knowledge, the Dutch "strongman" was kidnapped after a faked assassination attempt by a secret spy organization, and the film revolved around rying to locate and save the diplomat, who was allegedly the key o maintaining peace in Europe in 1939.In the courtroom setting - a recreation of an actual courtroom in London""s Central Criminal Courts, known as The Old Bailey, he testimony -- and true identity -- of the mysterious, beautiful German-born ""wife"" of the accused, Christine "Helm" Vole (Marlene Dietrich), held the key to solving the case involving marital infidelities and deceit.Spartacus threatened Marcellus by first strangling him, and then pushing his head into he kitchen""s boiling pot of stew to drown him.