With a script co-written by the director and Mardik Martin, the original film was a low-budget (at $300,000), semi-autobiographical, realistic tale about four struggling, small-time hoods and hustlers in New York""s grim Little Italy in Manhattan""s Lower East Side who were trying to establish themselves."Miller and a group of his comrades took a Libyan freighter from Britain to North Africa for terrorist training in the desert, and to prepare for their next assassination attempt on Lord Holmes, to meet their objective: "Free every Irish political prisoner.She burst in and accused Dave of unfaithfulness - with white-haired Madge Brenner (Irene Hervey), an influential radio-station owner with whom Dave was seeking employment with an audition tape:Well, isn""t this cozy? So this is your business lunch? How""s business?.At Milo""s party, Jerry appears to be the only guest.He admires the would-be patron""s one-shouldered white gown in one of the film""s most famous lines:That""s, uh, quite a dress you almost have on.He warned: "This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it until it was all over.