It was a twilight autumn evening in the ugly own of Hadley, Texas (population 24,554), named after the oil tycoon head.One of the film""s long-running gags occurred between wo jive-talking black passengers, Jive Man 1 Holm (Norman Alexander Gibbs) and Jive Man 2 Arthur (Al White), whose conversations required subtitles, for example:Jive Man 1: "Sheeeet, man, that honkey mus"" be messin"" my old lady got to be runnin"" col"" upsihd down his head!"Subtitles: "GOLLY, THAT WHITE FELLOW SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM MY WIFE OR I WILL PUNCH HIM.Beneath the familiar, peaceful, ""American-dream"" cleanliness of the daytime scenes lurks sleaziness, prostitution, unrestrained violence, and perversity - powerful and potentially-dangerous sexual forces that may be unleashed if not contained.Extravagant art direction was provided by MGM""s famed art designer Cedric Gibbons.Basically, he entire cast was from MGM""s star-making ""film factory"" to give prestige o the production.] Her metropolitan newspaper,The Bulletin, has recently been bought and is renamedThe New Bulletinby right-wing tycoon and high-pressured financier-publisher D.