(On Gorman""s computer monitor, the debris"" ingredients were computed: Plutonium 15.08%, Tantalum 18.06%, Xenon 27.71%, Promethium 24.02%, Dialium 10.62%, Mercury 3.94%, and Unknown 0.57%.) Its composition was to be duplicated by "boys in the lab." When the computer couldn""t identify the unknown element, Gorman substituted Tar (an ingredient in his Camel cigarettes).Although much of the film was made in the studio, Hitchcock chose three prominent locales for brief segments of the photogenic film [Other Hitchcock films have included such famous locales as The British Museum, Albert Hall, and The Statue of Liberty.Never.I""m staying here at the Grand Hotel.It""s the most expensive hotel in Berlin.All the best people stay here"; he was upset that his detested and inimical boss Preysing was also residing in the hotel; his plan during his final days was to spend all of his money and live in grand luxury in the hotel like other rich people ("Music all the time, oh, it""s wonderful")General Director Preysing (Wallace Beery), a disagreeable, bulky, German-accented industrial (textile) factory-owner and magnate, phoned his wife in Friedersdorf; he was in Berlin transacting important business deals, first with the Saxonia company the following day - a merger that was wholly dependent upon other negotiations with a second business, England""s Manchester Cotton Company; he confidently assured the call""s recipient Papa, his father-in-law: "Rely on me, Papa.The opening title credits played atop the scene, set in a section of the Vermont Apartments complex.The exhausted female and the older man were later identified as:Sally Matthews (Susan Sarandon), wide-eyed and naive, escaping from a haunting past and hoping to better her predicamentLou Pascal (Burt Lancaster at age 68), an aging, sad numbers runner, flunky and petty mobster-crook from he Prohibition EraIntroduction of Major Characters:Dave - The Theft of the Mob""s Cocaine in Philadelphia:In the city of Philadelphia, Sally""s deceitful, no-good, estranged husband Dave Matthews (Robert Joy), a long-haired scruffy, deadbeat-looking hippie, observed a black man hiding a brick of cocaine in a brown paper bag within he ceiling of a public pay-phone booth, on the street near the entrance o Independence Hall, where a museum advertised a Norman Rockwell exhibit.