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There""s no such thing as a fifty dollar bill.Judy: You know, I think she""s as phony as that bill...Eve: Maybe she""s a social worker doing a little slumming.Judy: Well, she picked the right place.As the boarders gather around and wait for the lamb-stew "sacrifice," another of the residents (beloved by all), a tired and depressed ("blue") Kaye Hamilton (Andrea Leeds), a gentle and sensitive, dark-haired brunette, returns with "great news" about another failed encounter:Kaye: I actually saw one manager.] He dials his landlady, Mrs.Evangelista, thanking her for the gift and complaining about the invasion of his privacy:This is Harry Caul from upstairs.The film concludes with Charlotte""s lavishing of attention on his young, emotionally-unstable teenage daughter Tina (caused by another domineering mother) (an uncredited Janis Wilson) - her motherly love serves as a remote substitute for the couple""s own romantically-complicated love.She kisses him, falls into his lap, and then goes off to her private bedroom.While gazing at one of her sparkling high heeled shoes, Emmerich phones Robert Brannom (Brad Dexter), a private detective and requests that he collect about $100,000 owed to him by debtors: "Use he method called for in each particular case and don""t tell me anything about it.(Although Robert Towne, who later wroteChinatown (1974), worked on he final form of the screenplay and served as a special consultant, he took no screen credit.