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It""s not just cards, you know.It""s your future.I want you to concentrate.I hate you going back to that oyster bar.The world should be your oyster...If you""d only stop being afraid.Deal with courage.You""re, you""re a little pearl produced by that oyster bar.Une petite perle."Lou and Drug-Dealing Dave - Meeting Up at an Atlantic City Bar:After collecting his bets, Lou met with local black mobster and bookie Fred O""Reilly (John McCurry) in the Club Harlem bar (or Clifton""s), to deliver his week""s bets ($48 dollars and 6 bits or 75 cents), down from the previous week due to economics: "Everybody""s broke!" Feeling he pinch himself, Lou tried to pawn off a silver cigarette case o Fred for a "double sawbuck" ($20 dollar bill).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.A moment later, his future ex-wife, a wealthy and spoiled but high-spirited socialite, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) with the petname of "Red", dressed in her nightgown, follows him out the door - she holds his bag of golf clubs and a wooden pipe holder." The former gunslinger, the only prisoner in the jail who is being held until he sobers up, is "very puzzled" that there is a black sheriff in town.