The film""s preview in December 1958 at a greater LA heatre (The Bay Theatre in Pacific Palisades), when it was paired with the Tennessee Williams Southern dramaSuddenly, Last Summer (1959)about cannibalism and a threatened lobotomy, was a disaster.S.Cavalry soldiers - good guys.They appear heroically-positioned, riding stiffly and formally into a dusty town (San Rafael, also called Starbuck) along railroad tracks...You""ve been there, right?...You sat on the edge of the bed, didn""t ya? You took off your shoes, put your finger between your toes and picked your feet.Didn""t quite make that though.So now I""m just trying to play it cool.Not quite making that either." She had broken up with Dave (with a "whole Bette Davis, through-finished-kaput scene").According to her effeminate friend Jay-Jay (Duke Everts): "I happen to think she could be a first-rate artist if her damned hormones didn""t get in the way.Barnes and McClane surmised that the mercenaries had taken over the church near the west side of the airport as their base of operations, and prepared to raid it.