The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
Jack Rogers asks Steve Clark for a "case note," in response to which Clark hands him some cash. "Case note" is prison slang for a small amount of money, or one's "last dollar."