However, two major concessions and changes from the novel had to be made: (1) stockade Sgt.Fatso""s sadistic brutality against Maggio had to be interpreted as atypical of Army behavior, and (2) the fate of Capt.The door slams, announcing the arrival of her rude, insensitively-cruel brother Walter (Frank Albertson) - he is expected o escort Alice to the Palmer Party, but he is reluctant to be associated with the socially-prominent: "I""m no society snake.To extract information from Babe, he threatens:Oh please, don""t worry.I""m not going into that cavity.That nerve""s already dying.A live, freshly-cut nerve is infinitely more sensitive.So I""ll just drill into a healthy tooth until I reach the pulp...unless of course you can tell me that it""s safe.BackgroundMcCabe & Mrs.Miller(1971) was iconoclastic and offbeat director Robert Altman""s acclaimed revisionist western (or "anti-western" according to some) about the American frontier.Some were able to escape through a series of underground tunnels, although some of the students were captured.