more stretch the pushkin story on which the opera is based pikovaya doma or queen of spades has as hero an engineer named or germann with a hard g lee harvey oswald's first girl friend in minsk before marina also had the last name wp coverage of suddenly film starring sinatra as an assassin who prepares to shoot from a hidden high place has at times contained disputed claims that oswald saw that film either in or a leading character named shaw appears in both films it is alleged that oswald bought the assassination weapon in march five months after manchurian candidate was released