"Dix""s eager-to-please-and love, tough-girl moll Doll Conovan (Jean Hagen, who would soon play her career""s definitive role as Lina Lamont inSingin"" in the Rain (1952)), a lonely waitress who has been "locked out" of her lodgings (at the "clip joint" - the Club Regal) due o a police raid, seeks shelter in his place.Now don""t forget it."Up on his rooftop at daybreak the next day, Terry ells a fourteen-year old neighborhood boy named Tommy (Thomas Handley) hat he thinks his pigeons have the life:Boy, they sure got it made, huh? Eatin"".It was edited even more - the current release version of the film is now shown at approximately wo and a quarter hours (about 10 reels), one quarter of its original length.He was picked up on a street-corner by his rowdy, drinking friends and was driven to his favorite discotheque in Bobby C...I""m an open book, I""m afraid, or rather a closed one." The chirping of the "pretty" lovebirds, significantly positioned between Mitch""s former and future "lovebirds," rouse Annie""s jealousy and/or suspicion even further (the emotional feelings of both women are caged-up and unrevealed):Annie: (noticing the birds) Oh pretty! What are they?Melanie: Lovebirds.