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The gang members include:"Doc" Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), an ex-con, and the mastermindLouis Ciavelli (Anthony Caruso), a professional safecrackerGus Minissi (James Whitmore), thehunchbacked getaway driverDix Handley (Sterling Hayden), a""hoodlum"" or hooligan thugAlonzo Emmerich (Louis Calhern) -- a white-collar, untrustworthy lawyer -- not a gang member, but the gang""s financierThe members of the gang are not one-dimensional, like he amoral gangsters inThe Public Enemy (1931)orScarface (1932), but proud professional men who have turned to theft.Dad was a Yankees fan then, so, of course, I rooted for Brooklyn.But in ""58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about.We did.And when it came time to go to college, I picked the farthest one from home I could find.This, of course, drove him right up the wall, which, I suppose, was the point.Officially, my major was English, but really, it was the Sixties.I marched, I smoked some grass, I tried to like sitar music, and I met Annie.The only thing we had in common was that she came from Iowa, and I had once heard of Iowa.After graduation, we moved to the Midwest and stayed with her family as long as we could, almost a full afternoon.They almost dropped dead from shock themselves." Maggie changes her clothes, ending up wearing only a sexy white slip in he heat.She takes full responsibility for Brick""s contribution o the birthday celebration:Brick: Big Daddy! Now what makes him so big? His big heart? His big belly? Or his big money?Maggie: The heat has made you cross." Two police officers arrested Foley again and took him to an increasingly-irritated Lieut.Bogomil ("Why are you bothering Victor Maitland?").Foley explained how Maitland was a "hot-shot art dealer" who also dealt in crates filled with German bearer bonds - similar to the ones found on Mikey when he was killed.