Ollie: (Shaking his hand) That's what I call determination.They have a fast-paced free-for-all (of grabbing, snatching, losing, regaining, losing, and regaining) as they attempt to fight Finn and Lola for the deed.A.Ellington.The complex, eccentric, perverse and cynical tale was in keeping with the prevailing attitudes of the American post-war era, playing upon US political paranoia of German-Nazi war criminals who escaped and assumed new identities in South America.With three years advance publicity and Hollywood myth-making, hree and one-half hours running time (with one intermission), a gala premiere in Atlanta on December 15, 1939, highest-grossing film status (eventually reaching an unadjusted intake of almost $200 million domestic, and just over $402 million worldwide), and Max Steiner's sweeping musical score, the exquisitely-photographed, Technicolor film was a blockbuster in its own time.Sadie: I wish the poor --- had enough sense to have somebody give him a good reason for the beating he's going to get." Astounded, Michael naively asks: "Well, what's it like over there? Will you ell us anything?" The solitary Green Beret repeats his dark ominous words - he is incapable of describing his war experience.