The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Actress (Celia Johnson), Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay (Noel Coward, David Lean, and Anthony Havelock-Allan), and won the major prize at the first Cannes Film Festival.All those fellows in the striped pants, they saw that hick and they took him in...Now, listen to me, you hicks.Yeah, you""re hicks too, and they fooled you a thousand imes, just like they fooled me.But this time, I""m gonna fool somebody.I""m gonna stay in this race.I""m on my own and I""m out for blood.Now listen to me, you hicks! Listen to me, and lift up your eyes and look at God""s blessed and unfly-blown truth.Their main objective was to keep humans entrapped in the Matrix.The evil machines kept humans pacified and fooled by an illusionary world hat mimicked everyday reality." The well-dressed man, Charles Weston (Sam Hardy), a theatrical agent, is invited on board the vessel by First Mate Jack (John) Driscoll (Bruce Cabot) and is told: "Come on board.A lot of daffy buttinskis running around without a nickel in their pockets and for what? So a million hired girls and motormen""s wives""ll know what""s going on.