When Burden""s editor Madison feels the pressure: ("I work here.I take orders") and that Stark "is getting too big for his britches," he demands that theChroniclenow support Stark""s opponent Harrison, the politico""s man: ("The hicks are getting too smart.His father (Hobart Bosworth) supports the war effort: "It""s come, Mother! Now we must all pitch in and do our bit!.The film was never produced, due to HUAC pressure on Columbia Pictures"" studio chief Harry Cohn, who told Miller to change the villains from corrupt and militant union officials and gangsters o evil communists, so it would have a “pro-American” feel -- but Miller refused and pulled out as screenwriter.Cora: The wedding ring.It was the first thing he mentioned.Frank: And you liked it.A certain reason.Cora: You don""t know the half of it.Frank, I-I hate to say this but, I wasn""t ever, ever homely.So..Frank: You must have had to fight off a lot of guys.Cora: A lot of guys? All the guys.I don""t especially like the way I look sometimes.But I never met a man since I was fourteen that didn""t want to give me an argument about it.Frank: Sure.And by the time Nick came along, well you were ready o marry anybody that owned a gold watch.Cora: It seemed the best thing to do, from my angle.And as for him, I told him, I told him I didn""t love him.Frank: He said that would come in time.Cora: Yeah.Frank: But it didn""t.Cora: But I meant to stick by him, and that""s why...Frank: That""s why you married him and retired.The undefeated champ.Cora: Not one hundred percent undefeated.Not now.Breathlessly, the voluptuous Cora succumbs to Frank""s promise of adventure to escape her life of boredom and defeat, and her marriage of convenience.