Ronnie: What flavor?Roy: Orange.It was orange - and it wasn""t like an ice cream cone.It was, it was more like a shell.You know, it was like this.Ronnie: Like a taco? Was it like one of those Sara Lee, um, moon-shaped cookies? Those crescent cookies? (trying to be supportive) Don""t you think I""m taking this really well? I remember when we used to come to places like this just to look at each other.Me and my partner, Sourdough, live fifteen miles from your cousin." A bit apprehensive by the appearance of the two scruffy men, Letty fled back into Roddy""s arms for reassurance, and the urbane cattle rancher promised to check on her: "I""ll stop off on my way back to see how you""re makin"" out - ".] She has been institutionalized as a "loony" in a "laughing house", although she has accurately defined Hammer as an archetypal tough-guy:Christina: You""re angry with me, aren""t you? Sorry I nearly wrecked your pretty little car.The time period of the provocative, sophisticated film is set in the early 50s during the height of right-wing McCarthyism - a time of tense political paranoia with the overriding, reactionary fear that Communists (Russian and Chinese) were scheming to take over the US via advanced brainwashing techniques and programmed terrorist raining.