"Director Mel Brooks makes three cameos in the film: as the sleazy governor, as a Yiddish-speaking, Jewish-Sioux Indian chief, and as a WWI aviator in the badman lineup.Elliott is a young boy desperately in need of a friend.Again under a crescent moon, Elliott sleeps that night in a sleeping bag on a patio chair with his flashlight ready to catch a glimpse of the alien.Holmes - he was to be reprimanded for his mistreatment of Prewitt, rather than promoted.Nonetheless, the ground-breaking film""s subjects still include prostitution, adultery, military injustice, corruption and violence, alcohol abuse, and murder." A closeup (an iris shot) of a white-gloved hand holding a wedding ring in a small square box opens the scene.