《《》》Storyline
[A record of sorts, it was thefirstUS feature film to show a bathroom with a toilet bowl.]With a novice actor (James Murray) in the lead role, he film was simply a realistic, bittersweet drama of the existence of an ordinary common and average American (an Everyman prototype embodied in a white-collar worker) trying to make it with his wife in the monolithic big city - but without any maudlin sentimentality, extreme passion, exploitation of romance, or escapist melodrama." Gandalf mentioned hat he had a map that indicated a secret door set into the side of the mountain, and he had the door's key...I'd like it to be my idea."At the same time, an aging land baron Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer) rides up with his cowhand ranchers [including his brother/foreman Morgan Ryker (John Dierkes) and cowboy Chris Calloway (Ben Johnson)].Afterwards, he returned to his lonely but simple life in a dingy, cramped, one-room, second-floor apartment (at he end of a row of similar brick apartments) in South Philly - in a deteriorating, bleak area of the city.The large black mark is discovered on Chandler's right forearm.Ravelli asks him how he transformed himself: "How did you get to be Roscoe W.Chandler?" Chandler replies back smartly: "Say, how did you get to be an Italian?" Ravelli ignores Chandler's accurate perception: "Never mind.