Major Henri de Beaujolais (James Stephenson) halts the column, and commands his bugler Digby Geste (Robert Preston) to "wake ""em up in there," but there is no response.One says to the other: "Let us know if she tries to leave town."That evening, a wild party is held in a middle-class residence in Miami.In a lengthy take, the beautiful young, spoiled, playgirl daughter, Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) banters with he guests and drinks heavily.[Note: "Peckerwood" or its more vulgar derivative "peckerhead" was derogatory slang for an unsophisticated rustic person or "redneck.LexCorp scientist Emmet Vale (Ralph Lister) described it: "The fragment is of a radioactive Xeno-mineral.