Cortez reminds me so much of Pacino's character in The Godfather. I mean the look.

Your wish is my command!

MAJOR FLESH-ly SPOILERS!!!

Basically this is what happened after Polakai showed up on Nickey's doorstep:

Nickey promised Polakai that he'd get Laura back for him.

But Laura doesn't want to go back. She's "done enough to that man already".

Nickey decides to "persuade" Laura and "draws her a map".

Laura goes back to Polakai and convinces him to wrestle Nickey's way: crooked.

Polakai agrees, starts hitting the sauce (instead of Laura). Laura realizes she "likes, really likes" Polakai.

Polakai gets toasted right before a big match he's supposed to throw. Nickey gets wind of it and decides to try the same "persuasion" and map drawing on Polakai, who's too drunk to notice.

Then Nickey draws another map for Laura. Polakai notices. Nickey's map drawing days are cut short.

Polakai goes into the match a little hungover but wins and becomes champion...and gets arrested for murder.

Laura visits Polakai in prison and there is a hint that the authorities may regard Polakai's murder as a simple case of vermin extermination and happily ever after, Polakai says "Liebschen...." (and we presume he will join AA).






























Edited by: MissGoddess on May 9, 2011 8:16 PM

oh no my dear, Hammond NEVER lead her on , actually he was quite a decent fellow
Our Leslie THREW herself at him ...and when he tried to maintain some decency
she drilled him full of lead....I STILL LOVE THE MAN I KILLED she tells hubby,
but
dear Mrs Hammond has other plans for her.... did you know the young actress playing the visitor
Elizabeth Earl was Sigourney Weaver's mom?
VI the terrible...

Mrs. Hammond: I don't care about Leslie; you gave her what she deserved. I want that white lace mantilla she wore when she met you. You were right, it was too good for her to wear. I always hoped to pair it with the Shenendoah wedding gown when my turn came. I ended up settling for white dotted swiss with silk trim, flowers on dress and my hair, and shoes all in blue. The flowers lasted longer than we did. Hope you and son of Charlie Chan didn't get too much prision time.

Darn it! Drat! Doggone it! Bollocks! Aaaargh!!!! I need SPOILED "FLESH"!!!

I ran out of videotape so I missed the end of the movie. The last thing I saw, was Laura (Karen Morley) shows up at Nick's (Cortez) house...and then Polekai shows up!

* Does Laura ever get Nick?

* Does Polekai demand a paternity test?

* Does Nick do the right thing by EV'RYbody...or does he remain the all-time heel of heels? And can you really be mad at him when it's Laura who's blinded by love, I mean obsession?

* Does Polekai wake up smell the coffee and chuck the whole lot o' them rats?

A Maven wants to know. She really does.

My name is Mrs. Hammond and my eyes are like a cobra's eyes, I love to wear
spangles and my face is like a mask...you remind me of my friend Leslie Crosbie

congradulations on 11,000 posts my dear friend,,,VI

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Wow, Goddess, thank you so much for shedding light on THE INFORMER and taking my queries seriously! (since you're the Ford expert on this board)

One thing that strikes me about Gypo through Vic's performance and Pappy's direction, is how excruciatingly human Gypo is. Let me be pretentious and submit that Gypo to me is very existential as a character. He stumbles about blindly through the fog, plagued by an inability to understand himself, much less the world around him. He's a stranger in a strange land. The British and the Irish don't trust him; Gypo's in a kind of limbo, and can't control the social forces that have engulfed him in poverty. "There is no harm in him", says Katie, but there is an element of dark cunning in Gypo's actions that don't entirely make him sympathetic, and yet we can't really condemn Gypo as either a brute or a fool.

Edited by: Bronxgirl48 on May 7, 2011 3:17 AM