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"]Filmed during the Depression Era, the film's idea of wealth and glittering elegance is portrayed by the sumptuous backgrounds and gleaming surroundings (fancy hotels, a dream-like, Art Deco Venice with winding canals and bridges, a floating nightclub, etc.The hellfire preacher Sin Killer, a hypocritical, lecherous Bible-thumper sights Pearl under her blanket:You call her a child, Laura Belle? Under that heathen blanket, there's a full-blossomed woman fit for the devil to drive men crazy.]As he considers his options, knowing that he can't return to his apartment where the "bloodhounds" will find him, he hears a woman wearing dark glasses behind a slatted shade call out: "You there! Why are you so late? Why have you kept me waiting so long?" He is summoned "in here" and waved/escorted into the gothic house by a bald-headed, properly-attired, white-gloved, German manservant/butler Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim) at the metal-gated front-door.The overwrought film is best known for one famous line of dialogue, and for being Bette Davis' last contract film for Warner Bros after 18 years with the studio."Plot SynopsisCrude Montana Cowboy Beauregard 'Bo' Decker On His Way to an Arizona Rodeo:During the opening title credits, the Four Lads sang "The Bus Stop Song" (aka Paper and Pins) written by Ken Darby:I'll give to you a paper of pins And that's the way our love beginsIf you will marry me, me, me If you will marry meI'll give to you a feathery bed With downy pillows for your headIf you will marry me, me, me If you will marry meBut you don't want my paper of pins And you don't want my feathery bedYou want my house and money instead That is plain to seeWell here hey are take everything My house, my money, my wedding ringAnd in the bargain I'll throw in me If you will marry meThe melodramatic hillbilly love story opened on a ranch in Timber Hill, Montana, where naive and unsophisticated 21 year-old callow and rude cowboy Beauregard 'Bo' Decker (Don Murray in his film debut) and his protective father figure and ranch hand Virgil Blessing (Arthur O'Connell) were introduced.