During the night""s first watch, Bilbo told Bofur, one of the dwarfs, that he was about to return o Rivendell.One of the clumsy astronomers, Micromegas, falls backwards into a tub of nitric acid.The group is told that if hey ascend to the roof where the foundry will cast the space-gun, hey will witness "a splendid spectacle" - the casting of the cannon.Johnny Boy jumped up onto a pool table swinging a broken pool cue, and gesturing with wild karate kicks.The next morning, Max and Gyro were awakened by noises of vehicular activity around the refinery.Max watched from afar as a group of townsfolk (in four vehicles going in opposite directions) left the compound (on a sortie).]The poignant, moving film realistically transports its present-day audiences back to the setting of the late 1940s, where the film""s three typical protagonists return from their honored wartime roles to their past, altered middle-American lives and are immediately thrust into domestic tragedies, uncertainties, conflicts and awkward situations - handicapped (both physically and emotionally) by their new civilian roles.