After methodically washing his hands, Szell repeatedly and calmly asks he baffling question: "Is it safe?"Before oral surgery, he painfully digs around with an implement in Babe""s mouth, then plugs in his loud-sounding, whirring drill (the horror is accentuated by POV shots)." It was only Fosse""s second film, but won numerous accolades (and was a financial and artistic hit), and has been viewed in retrospect as the only truly great musical of the 1970s."Maria prays by her bedside, blessing the Captain and he children:Dear Father,nowI know why you""ve sent me here.They reunited at a five-and-dime Woolworth""s Store in the fictional own of McCarthy, TX (about 60 miles from Marfa).