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  1. 7. For decades, the farmer/teacher has emptied his pockets and dropped the change into one of those 20 gal. milk cans that dairymen use. At one point in the plot, this money becomes useful. Not as a matter of payoff or blackmail, but in a context of smoothing over one of his own

    concerns.

  2. 6. The high-school teacher also runs his mother's farm; the mother has terminal cancer. He has problems approaching. The local school system is upgrading it's standards, and his level of education will not meet the new standards. His affair with the teenager has deeply hurt his age-appropriate girlfriend, another teacher.

  3. 5.The man who had the affair with the teenager is a high-school teacher who has done something wrong, of course, but the key to this scene's resolution is the character of the father. He knows his daughter; he knows her past, and he has relocated his family to this rural community to get away from the past. An ex-military officer, he has taken an early retirement because his family needs him. In a later scene about a meeting with the parents after the girl has done something nearly distructive, it emerges that her mother is an alcaholic, and is dead drunk even at this meeting. The father has two crosses to bear.

  4. 4. The two actors in this scene put a lot, A LOT of footage in the can in the late 20th Century involving menace, violent action, bloodspatter and wafting powder smoke. It would be reasonable for an audience to expect these things here. But not so.

  5. ...Only The Strong Ride Beyond Vengeance To Hell And Back Where The Green Ants Dream When Night Is Falling...

     

    ...Down In The Delta, The Heat's On the Girl From 10th Avenue To Kill A Clown...

     

    ...If You Could See What I Hear, I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes For The Love Of Benji...

     

    ...When Harry Met Sally Under The Yum-Yum Tree, They Went That-A-Way And That-A-Way, So

    I Married An Axe Murderer, But Not For Me...

     

    (A major problem is matching verb tense in the different titles. I consider that untouchable, and I

    won't try any changes there. Connective words in titles are rare also. I think I've exausted every

    "And", "If" or "When" that can be put to use. But it's still fun.)

  6. I can't believe this subject baffled everybody, so I assume it interested nobody. I will go ahead and wrap it up, so the thread can be used by someone else in it's intended manner. Thee more questions. First, a little more sweeping-up:

     

    From Clue # 16; The two-unloaded-guns duel involved Clint Eastwood and Gian Maria Volante in the showdown that ended A Fistful Of Dollars.

     

    From Clue # 17, My memory had mis-served me about the ending of The Glass Key. There was a hospital scene that bore on the subject of the Boss' romance, but the actual ending had Brian Donlevy walking away and leaving Alan Ladd (fully recovered) and Veronica Lake to have each other, with his blessings. He just took his engagement ring back. (The movie aired again on TCM last night.)

     

    And some more sweeping up: Dashiell Hammett's imdb site names him as the source of Miller's Crossing, giving the titles of Red Harvest and The Glass Key

     

    Clue # 18. "Do you really think you can trade body blows with me?" Which title?

  7. Again screwing with the punctuation:

     

    Report To The Commissioner: My Stepmother Is An Alien Preditor, In Enemy Country, Who'll Stop The Rain If A Man Answers When Eight Bells Toll After Midnight In The Garden Of Good And

    Evil...

     

    ...They Made Me A Fugitive From Hell To Borneo While You Were Sleeping, And The Band Played On Into The Night Of The Hunter...

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