They are abruptly brought out of their insulated and carefree world by their father's unpopular but courageous defense of a black man named Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) falsely accused of raping a Southern white woman.Attempting to stop both Rick and Alex, Colonel Choi and General Yang were presumably killed by a bomb dropped onto them by Jonathan from the last remaining airplane.As before, Superman intercepted the missile in space and hurled it into the sun, but this time, the explosion's fireball erupted from the sun's surface and discharged a newly-energized, solar-powered super-human in a black and gold costume with a cape -- known as "Nuclear Man" (Mark Pillow, in his sole performance ever in a film), who flew to Earth's Metropolis.BackgroundSullivan's Travels(1941) is generally considered one of celebrated writer/director Preston Sturges' greatest dramatic comedies - and a satirical statement of his own director's creed.