Kyle was the big-spending, profligate, impulsive manager of the Hadley oil business with a reputation for being a "dashing" playboy.The sophisticated yet cynical film of the early 60s is a bleak assessment of corporate America, big business and capitalism, success, and the work ethic, when a lowly but ambitious accountant enables his climb up the corporate ladder by ingratiating himself to his superiors - he literally prostitutes his own standards and moral integrity and allows himself to be exploited.He proposed that they box each other in an informal sparring match: "When you won that last fight, you won by one second." He also stressed to the group about the locked doorways: "No one will be allowed to leave until the show is over.Japanese overseer Captain Kanematsu (Henry Okawa): No time for jokes.Finish work...Dig dig.Shears and his Australian companion Weaver are placed on the sick list after bribing the Japanese Captain with a cigarette lighter (taken from one of the corpses).