The film had only two nominations and no wins for Best Sound and Best Score (Alfred Newman).Plot SynopsisThe Opening Title Credits and Prologue:The two opening itle pages of the credits announced: "RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.Wearing black tights under a jumper held with a leopard-skin belt, the tight, blonde-curled, ample woman pretentiously holds a cigarette holder upright and assures him (in an ironic, naughty-me, bawdy tone) with raucous laughter:Oh M'sieur, if what you're needing is peace and quiet, I can assure you you couldn't get more peace [piece?] anywhere, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.One p.m.Buy a pack of Dunhill and ask the man sitting on the bus stop bench for a match.-- At the bus stop after Ethan asked for a match, he was seized and escorted into a car that pulled up by the curb, and his head was covered with a black hood by a thug named Matthias (Karel Dobry).Plot SynopsisFrom the start, the main credits render the primal myth in cartoonish form - an animated, buck-fanged, top-hatted, besotted snake - with a slightly battered derby hat and maracas - slithers and curls around a tree as it descends in a coil.