He meekly confessed to Bill that he had pawned off their phonograph player to buy his sweetheart Mildred he lavalliere (that he couldn""t afford), and now they had no money o pay their overdue rent ($14 dollars for two weeks) to the landlady.He is buzzed in after ringing the doorbell - she catches the door before it locks.In the dark, interior corridor outside an apartment where sleazy, honky-tonk music is heard playing, she fumbles within her purse and akes out her deadly pistol.The pilot-lessGrendelcame in too fast and overshot theSolarisspace station, crashing into it as it slid along the steel structure, and peeled back huge chunks of metal and shattered glass.It received eight Academy Award nominations (with one win, for its uncredited Assistant Directors Paul Wing and Clem Beauchamp, who directed the action sequences).In their first few hours, she tumbles backwards into the dust and soils her pure-white dress, sweats in the heat, steps in tar, and tires quickly, longing for the financial security of the restaurant business:Cora: Frank, look.