The content of the film can be divided into four distinct parts:the pre-war education of schoolboys, and the enlistment of the young German recruitsthe soldiers"" arrival at the front of World War Ithe experiences of the cruelties and horrors of war in trench warfarethe hero""s homecoming, return to the front, and ultimate deathThe film includes a series of vignettes and scenes hat portray the senselessness and futility of war from the sympathetic point of view of the young German soldiers in the trenches in the Great War who found no glory on the battlefield, meeting only death and disillusionment.Saruman sent his army out to burn peasant villages, beginning in the region of Rohan ruled by horse-lords and King Theoden (Bernard Hill).Outside her rented apartment in a crumbling section of town, Rocky met her teenaged son who was hanging out on the street, and offered the two of them a free meal at his restaurant some time in the future.The spiritual and erotic melodrama (with Oscar-winning cinematography by Jack Cardiff) from the UK was based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden."He demonstrated how insincere and dishonest he was when he used the same pick-up line ("You have a terrific face") on part-time actress Linda (Christine Ebersole) whom he had seen in ""Dames at Sea"": "Good work, really.