There is also an intriguing outside mural - drawn by some bored German soldier - of a man in a boater hat smoking a pipe.

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And you will likely be the only boater.

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Allen had bought him a Styrofoam straw boater.

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In one scene, as the boater-hatted Stavros awaits his fate on Ellis Island, amid a crush of straining, bewildered faces, Kazan films the immigration officers striding like Roman consuls past the fenced-in throng and into the cavernous great hall.

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