Be a chambermaid for a bunch of yellow saxophone students."That night during the formal dance party, in a parallel scene, the tenants (hiding behind bushes and trees) peered through he plantation windows and made fun of the rich folks.Eight Bells and all is wrong.The next sequence opens with Willie sleeping in his steamboat cabin, where evidence of his recent peanut (or cocoanut?)-eating feast litters the floor with shells.Angered, he snarls as he looks over and coldly tells her:You almost wrecked my car.Well? Get in!He begrudgingly gives a ride to the woman who has appeared out of the darkness.On the driver""s car radio, the announcer introduces he next jazzy piano selection by Nat King Cole,Rather Have he Blues.Bill: (to Tom) If you say what you""re thinking, I""ll strangle you!After being reunited with his weakling, embarrassing son by a handshake, Bill Sr.He became the first black man to play the role of a smart and highly-educated detective, and even more importantly, he first to strike a white man in an American film.