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Curiously, the only villain of the piece is a handsome, young Baron (Helmut Griem) who sets out to seduce both Sally and Brain with the aid of caviar, fur coats and gold cigarette cases. The source of the Baron's corrupting influence is his money and not his sexual tastes. But the audience soon forgets that fact, as the Baron's pursuit of Brain--and not the seductiveness of his wealth--becomes the movie's one fate markedly worse than death. Again, no effort is made to pinpoint the suggested relationship between the discrete deviance presented in the film...
...thing that impressed him most, however, was the quality and abundance of consumer goods. Sporting an eight-dollar pair of brown-suede, fur-lined shoes he bought in China, he praised the excellence of Chinese ships and electronic goods...
...several names supplied by Shamus," le Carre writes, "Cassidy formed a picture of this wonderful band of brothers, this few: a non-flying Battle of Britain squadron captained by Keats and supported by Byron, Pushkin, and Scott Fitzgerald. As to Cassidy himself, he was their squire, polishing their fur-lined boots, posting their last letters and wiping their names off the blackboard when they didn't come back...
...accompanied by four armed bodyguards ("You just can't be too careful with a man of this stature," says his manager). A black girl doing an "African dance of adoration" stops long enough to remove Hayes' orange, black and white cape, revealing him arrayed in black tights, fur cuffs, a leather vest and a necklace of gold chains...
...significant, Marlowe's testimony suggested a bizarre version of how and why Frazier committed the murders. Marlowe says Frazier told him that he broke into the Ohta house and was "incredibly upset" to find what he thought was an animal-skin bedspread there (actually, it was a fake fur). Frazier was also highly infuriated that the ostentation of the Ohtas' $250,000 hilltop house was despoiling nature. "It blew my mind," he told Marlowe...