'Marjorie'

*** this comment contains minor spoilers ***
Agree with opinions that RthPH is a little-known noir gem that’s finally getting the accolades it merits. However – I have a little problem with the otherwise pitch-perfect conclusion. The quasi-femme fatale character of Marjorie, played to perfection by Andrea King, just kind of disappears from the film after the cantina scene. Was she apprehended by the authorities, along with Frank Hugo and his various henchmen? Or did she slip away? (great fodder for a sequel, by the way).
Interesting that her status in the Hugo circle is rather ambiguous. We infer she’s Hugo’s girlfriend, but on the other hand, doesn’t much like him. And it’s more than a guilt-by-association situation for her, since she’s directly implicated in the plan to have the two assassins ambush Gagin.
But actually we also never learn in any specifics the fate of Hugo and his associates. We assume they were arrested and prosecuted, but this is never mentioned, and maybe that’s the point of the filmmakers: that it’s not important what happened to Hugo and the various assistants. What we really care about is what happens to the Montgomery character, and specifically how he manages his goodbye to Pila.
In this sense the Retz character, who’s curious about the same thing, is a kind of surrogate for the audience.