They hid in a room where they discovered a massive, fierce three-headed dog.Only Hermione noticed that the monstrous creature was standing over a trap-door, and she believed it was guarding something.Werdegast tells the couple that he is going to Vizhegrad and then on by bus, like them: "I go to visit an old friend.In the privacy of his study, the widower judge denies all authority or responsibility: "The Sheriff""s not here.This classic film anticipated the heist films of the early 50s (John Huston""sThe Asphalt Jungle (1950), and Stanley Kubrick""sThe Killing (1956)), accentuated the semi-documentary style of films of the period (Naked City (1948)) with its emphasis on new hi-tech forensic methods, and contained film-noirish elements, including the shady black and white cinematography, thefemme fatalecharacter, and the twisted psyche of the criminal gangster...Yang, what will your enemies say? They""ll say river pirates assaulted you, or Nanking surprised you in the night.