《》Storyline
The Quiet Man, Papagallo, Farmer and the Warrior Woman argued that they must continue to resist the "vermin on machines" and "defend the fuel," while others (mostly Big Rebecca, and Curmudgeon) gave pro-arguments to accept Humungus"" Ultimatum:The Quiet Man (David Slingsby): "We""ll never walk away! Never!"Big Rebecca (Moira Claux): "You heard what he said! lt sounds reasonable! We don""t have to die! All we have o do is walk away!"Warrior Woman: "No! We""ve worked too hard!"Big Rebecca: "lt""s simple! All we do is exchange the fuel and this junkyard for our lives!"Farmer: "Look, if we walk out there, they""ll slaughter us! They""ll set us loose and then cut us down like pigs!"Big Rebecca: (to the other colonists who resisted) "Don""t listen to them!"The Helmeted Curmudgeon (Syd Heylen): "All right, this is it! l""ll talk to this Humungus!." The Kid is a self-promoting, boastful killer: "I""m a damn killer myself, except I ain""t killed as many as you because of my youth."" From the beer-garden area of Muller""s, "Moisha Yudleson (Otto Lederer), rigidly orthodox and a power in the affairs of the Ghetto" spots the young Jewish boy singing, and runs to tell Jakie""s father.During a dinner invitation with their friend Edward "Hutch" Hutchins (Maurice Evans), he warns them of the apartment building""s notorious, sordid and unsavory reputation for witchcraft and cannibalism over 50 years earlier -- (and provides some of the film""s foreshadowing of what a prospective mother would fear - underlined):Are you aware that the Bramford had a rather unpleasant reputation around the turn of the century? It""s where the Trench sisters conducted their little dietary experiments.[The ""white trash"" couple (described in the local newspaper as "the Southwest""s most notorious bandit and his gun moll") first met in Texas in the early 1930s.