 Woody Allen (qv) initially intended to end the movie with him  emerging from a riot with his face darkened from soot; the black  rioters would then mistakenly claim him as one of their own. As with  _Take the Money and Run (1969)_ (qv), Allens editor,  Ralph Rosenblum (qv), convinced him to go with an ending more  organic to the story that came before it.