After she knelt down and attempted o clear it, the force of the shower jet suddenly increased.The water controls became inoperable and broke off, and some of the shower tiles burst from the wall.Inside, a group of mechanics, two of which danced to the Supremes"" "Come See About Me," had pulled off a successful job - the hijacking of boxes of US government property.] Jake also becomes hot-headed when he must defend his sleazy profession (of nosing into other people""s personal affairs) to another shop customer (Doc Erickson) who is employed by the First National Bank Mortgage Department:Listen, pal.Due to the film""s raw, controversially-offensive and critical assessment of hypocritical French military and bureaucratic authorities who callously condemn and sacrifice three randomly-chosen innocent men with execution (for cowardice) for their own fatal blunder, it suffered poor box-office returns, and was banned in France and Switzerland for almost twenty years (until the mid-1970s) following its release.