However, he many twisting and turning anomalies in Tony""s evolving story eventually didn""t add up, as wily, eccentric and ""by-the-book"" Chief Inspector Hubbard (John Williams) was perceptively pursuing the case.And then Helen (draped to hide her nakedness) entered Carol""s room to accuse her of passive-aggressive behavior against Michael: "Why did you throw Michael""s things away? Why""d you do it?." When hey refused, he slaughtered all of them with his knives and dual katanas - and in mockery spelled out Francis"" name with their corpses on the ground.).[Note: Walsh replaced director Anatole Litvak at the last minute.] This newsreel-like, semi-documentary, authentic-looking film, with both hard-hitting gangster genre action and romantic sentiment, shares a lot of similarities and is reminiscent of the greatest gangster films of the 30s, includingLittle Caesar (1930),Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932), andPublic Enemy (1931).Bard was a family man with a wife, young son Bain (John Bell), and two daughters: Sigrid and Tilda (Peggy and Mary Nesbitt).