Oliver tried to dissuade her because of the difficult circumstances he was facing, and the state of the economy: "I""m afraid you wouldn""t get what it was worth if you sold it now.And the best man.And I bid no welcome to any man fool enough to pay a thousand pounds for a bit of land that isn""t worth wo hundred.Therefore, his was Cagney""s third film of four with Walsh.He also helmed one of the best films in the gangster genre -High Sierra (1941)starring Humphrey Bogart.He calmly narrated his own story posthumously (a laJoe Gillis fromSunset Boulevard (1950)).Throughout the film, he was unable o speak his mind or actually feel much of anything.There were a number of instances of obscenities, drug dealing and drug use, implied masturbation, child-abuse, voyeurism, two brief female opless nudity of high school teens, statutory rape, a homosexual kiss, and adultery, with a violent climactic ending.