Therealprize and goal of their water journey down the Ulanga-Bora, other than he destruction of a German boat, is to overcome the various psychological obstacles that stand between them...There are far worse things - awaiting man - than death.Mina is amused that Lucy finds the charming Count Dracula "fascinating," with his talk of a Transylvanian castle.It was released at the end of the repressive 1950s at a time when the studio system was weakening, the advent of television was threatening, and during a time of the declining influence of the Production Code and its censorship restrictions.Pierson), from Pearce""s own novel of the same name, about life on a 1940s-era chain gang.The main character Luke (played by Paul Newman) was inspired by real-life convicted safecracker Donald Graham Garrison.