This was the film that solidified Elvis""s image as a rebellious icon challenging conventionality with a new style of music.]During their journey, Gandalf explained that there were four other wizards in his Middle-Earth order besides himself: (1) Saruman the White, (2 and 3) two Blue wizards, and (4) Radagast, the Brown (Sylvester McCoy) from the vast forest lands of Greenwood to the east, who preferred solitude and the company of animals.The story involves the father-son tale of an educated, effeminate, accident-prone, college-educated but simple-minded son - an archetypal underdog American hero - who ultimately is transformed and triumphs when he assists and impresses his burly, red-necked, hard-working Mississippi steamboat captain father in combating the hreatening efforts of a rival tycoon to take over the Mississippi steamboat business in the South - and also wins over the business rival""s daughter.Poelzig, who is black and feline himself, describes the age-old myth of the Black Cat which Werdegast believes is "the living embodiment of Evil":Werdegast: It is perhaps the narcotic.Another extremely troubled teenager, John "Plato" Crawford (Sal Mineo), who has been brought to the station by his ultimately powerless black housekeeper-nanny (Marietta Canty), is offered Jim""s dark brown jacket to keep warm, but refuses it (a foreshadowing of a different response in a similar scene in the film""s climax.