Dobbs "Dobbsie" (Humphrey Bogart)] who is betting on a fortune, tears his losing ticket o pieces and throws it away in anger and disgust.Like that mastodon there."[Note: Adam""s philosophy of coldness to preserve hings ("You can keep anything good, as long as you can get it cold enough") was also his viewpoint on parenting and his approach to dealing with Cal.The whimsical revisionist Western film, with the new "M" rating (for mature), although varying considerably in tone and mood, did so by imitating the styles of other cultish outlaw films, including director Arthur Penn""sBonnie and Clyde (1967), and the balletic graceful shootouts of Sam Peckinpah""sThe Wild Bunch (1969).]Regan was Sternwood""s bodyguard and close companion, an Irish Republican Army adventurer who acted as the General""s surrogate son-substitute.From the second-story window, Scottie notices that Madeleine Elster""s car has also mysteriously disappeared, and later finds it parked back in front of her apartment building, with the flower nosegay on the car""s dashboard.