The company is celebrating while Archie and Baby Doll continue to bicker:Archie: Why shouldn""t the Syndicate celebrate!!?? It""s got every last bit of business in the county, includin"" every last bit of what I used to get.[The image of ""reaching out"" with an extended finger was directly borrowed by Kubrick from the famous painting found in Michelangelo""s Sistine Chapel artwork -- of Man extending his finger to touch God""s hand.Unfortunately, it was competing against one of the biggest winners in Oscar history -Ben Hur (1959).Plot SynopsisIt is Chicago, 1929, in the pre-Depression, crime-rampant Prohibition Era - [the film has many identifying parallels to duplicate he world of the gangster film].One of the cable editors, Mr.Bradley (Charles Halton), received a cable-gram from the foreign news office in London, and reported it to Mr.