This comedy was a transition film for the director since it was the earliest example of a Woody Allen film with a fairly distinct storyline - with a beginning, middle, and ending.Evelyn brushed cobwebs away from a metal disk in the chamber, repositioned it so it would catch a ray of light from one of the outside mirrors, and discovered that the light bounced around the room""s many disks - lighting the passageways of the "preparation room.The town""s weak-willed police chief Harry Bleeker (Robert Keith) is overwhelmed by the disturbance and ineffective at stopping the escalating rowdiness ("It was an accident, I saw it")." [Marsdits is an disguised reference to Raymond B.Ditmars, the best-known reptile expert in the country at the time.]Pike is reluctant to say farewell to the "company of men" in the expedition that is on a "pursuit of knowledge," as he leaves with his watchful bodyguard/valet "Muggsy" Murgatroyd (William Demarest).