Buy yourself a bag and plug up your ears." Norma doesn""t believe that the actors of the alkies era can compete with the stars of the silent era.Jacob Q.Boot (Porter Hall).He then identified himself as: Charles (or ""Chuck"") Tatum (Kirk Douglas) from New York.From his demeanor, Tatum was self-important, slightly belligerent, and contemptuous of New Mexico.He passed on a question he wanted answered by the boss: "How would he like to make himself a fast $200 dollars a week?" Before Herbie left his desk to deliver the message, the young boy had already sized up Tatum, calling him "cagey..."Jonathan Demme""s stylishThe Truth About Charlie (2002)was a remake with numerous French New Wave references, starring Thandie Newton and Mark Wahlberg in the lead roles.] The two inexperienced, naive adventurers, assuming that the menacing backwoodsmen (who are harrassing them) are hiding a still to manufacture bootleg whiskey, promise not to tell anyone where it is located.