Barnes radioed to tell Lorenzo (and Grant) to provide backup support - they quickly arrived to surround the building, but the mercenaries (and Esperanza) escaped on snowmobiles after wiring the building and their equipment to explode with booby-traps.]Melies wrote the whimsical script, acted in the film in the lead role, designed the sets and costumes, directed, photographed, and produced the film! He hired acrobats from the Folies Bergere o play the lunar inhabitants named Selenites, and the scantily dressed assistants (or pages) who launched the cannon were dancers from the Châtelet ballet...We had a ranch.It wasn""t a very big one.No plumbing.A little thing out back.Poor Jeremiah, he""ll never know how close he came to twenty million barrels of oil.She complains, after becoming half-drunk on bourbon, hat nobody calls her ""Jessie"" anymore.[The actress"" name is Jessie Royce Landis!] After asking that the men call her "Jessie," she also forthrightly promotes the availability of her daughter (improperly educated and made phony at a "finishing school" in her opinion) for ""Mr.4 million dollar effort directed by Czech Milos Forman.Its allegorical theme is set in the world of an authentic mental hospital (Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon), a place of rebellion exhibited by a energetic, flamboyant, wise-guy anti-hero against the Establishment, institutional authority and status-quo attitudes (personified by the patients"" supervisory nurse).