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2012
Overview
For a brief moment, a chance encounter between a Wall Street tycoon and an unsuspecting working girl takes on the spectral eeriness of a Surrealist nightmare. Worn down by his profligate wife’s spending habits, millionaire banker J. B. Ball (Edward Arnold) decides to teach her a lesson. When their marital spat climaxes on their Fifth Avenue penthouse landing, he flings her most recent purchase, a $58,000 fur coat, off the roof. An overhead shot captures the coat as it slowly descends and assumes the shape of an ominous, bat-like creature (Figure 2.1). Its ghostly glide down seems to envelop a
