Stoneman has three children:a lovely daughter, Elsie (Lillian Gish)light-hearted Phil (Elmer Clifton)the youngest Tod (Robert Harron)The two Stoneman boys are friends with another family - the Camerons.]It was a surprise that the nominated director Norman Jewison failed to take home the Best Director Oscar for the celebrated, seminal late 1960s film - instead Mike Nichols won the award (presumably because he had failed to win as Best Director he previous year forWho""s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)).Hell, we were beating each other with our own severed limbs."When Waylander left him to help Rowan retrieve Sgt.Brodski, Crutch turned, and cried out: "I""ve got company" as he saw Professor Lowe""s head on the end of Jason""s machete - and hen he was grabbed from behind.What follows is a tense stand-off between ""Adam"" and gun-wielding ""Mr.Bartholomew"" - when Reggie has to decide who is telling the truth:Adam: Reggie, stop! That man is Carson Dyle.Two of the film""s main characters are introduced.Corps Commander General George Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), a wily, cultivated but calloused, evil, scheming and ruthless officer in the French High Command arrives in an open car, to discuss top-secret military maneuvers with his vainglorious subordinate - the scar-faced divisional General Paul Mireau (George Macready, with a real facial scar - the result of a serious car accident).