Word: overcoats
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...first arrest for obscenity came in San Francisco for using a ten letter word onstage. Lenny was acquitted, but soon he was being arrested in so many towns that he wore an overcoat while doing his act. After all, as Lenny put it, if they arrest you in town A and then in town B, by the time you get to town C they got to arrest you or everyone will wonder, "What kind of shit town are they running...
...have been worth it if I had gotten away. It had 60 grand in it." He pulled on his shirt and shoes and grabbed his overcoat...
...next corner, where the street intersected the chief thoroughfare of the quarter, three old men sat in a doorstoop. One wore a huge blue overcoat whose holes would lead one to believe that it dated back to his service in the Chaco War that Bolivia fought with Paraguay in the 1930s. His nose was of the typical Aymaran variety--long and hooked--which lent a slight touch of brutality to his appearance. As he saw me pass and glance at him and his friends, the ex-soldier grabbed a bottle the man next to him was raising to his lips...
...tanks!" he screamed, and began searching through the pockets of his overcoat. He pulled out a flashcard with a picture of a large tank. "I will make the French tanks kill them." Francois wears his overcoat in any kind of weather. It is a size 52, even though Francois is only five feet tall. Part of the extra cloth covers his hump. Another part gets pulled into a sagging pouch on all sides of him by his pockets, filled with symbols of the war somewhere in his past...
...played by Walter Huston, the old man in Treasure of Sierra Madre and the father of the director. He bursts into the office of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), gasps "Falcon!" and dies. But the film offers still more: Sidney Greenstreet at his most rotund, Elisha Cook in an oversized overcoat. This third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. This was the film that established John Huston as a director...