Both men (and all the other males in the town) had been symbolically stripped ("undressed") of their masculinity or phallic-strength mounted on their hips.The Pollitt family has begun to gather to celebrate he sixty-fifth birthday of the domineering Mississippi plantation owner and patriarch, Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives)."On their way to Erebor just before the sun set on Durin's Day, Thorin's group vainly searched for Durin's Door in the Lonely Mountain's cliffside." He wished they could have their five lost years back, and imagined what would have happened if they had not parted ways: "We'd have gone back to England, married and been very happy.).This spoof of detective films was the first of Keaton's feature films solely directed by himself, after his co-director stints inThree Ages (1923)andOur Hospitality (1923).