Clipton learns that the Japanese commandant blames Nicholson (still in the oven) for delays in the bridge construction: "Because of your colonel""s stubbornness, we are far behind schedule."In the film, the case centered around the accused - a dumb blonde (Holliday), who shot (but didn""t fatally wound) her adulterous husband (Ewell) caught with a mistress.On the soundtrack, a balletic overture of violins and woodwinds plays, as the camera pans down from a gilded proscenium above the stage of a derelict, abandoned opera house/casino, a symbol of collapsed civilization.HALLOWEEN EVE.One Year Later.[1989] CHILDREN""S CLINIC, Haddonfield, Illinois.During a thunder and lightning storm, nine year-old Jamie was undergoing monitoring-testing as she tossed and turned.]Cagney received his first Best Actor nomination for his performance in this film, one of the film""s three unrewarded nominations (Best Director - Michael Curtiz, and Best Original Story - Rowland Brown), and he lost to Spencer Tracy""s performance inBoys Town.