Samuel Loomis' (Malcolm McDowell) gun at point-blank range (after the gun clicked empty three times) just as he gripped her wrist.]The melodramatic, Freudian-based crime film, with recurring hemes of betrayal and trust, is enhanced by the musical score of Max Steiner and the frantic pacing brilliantly served up by the director.The camera tracks along the crown of the trees and then slowly moves downward to a shot of thatched rooftops in a native village.He also insisted on filming in natural, non-Hollywood studio locales - using real exteriors in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and interiors and street scenes in San Francisco and in Oakland.