Likewise, he decrepit mansion and demented character of Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) wearing a doll costume and living in the past inWhatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)come from the same inspiration.the first major Hollywood celebrity.In this spectacular film, the silent star screen actor was required o ride high above the city on a magic carpet (a 3/4 inch piece of steel suspended on its four corners by 16 piano wires held by a 100-foot crane), battle with a fire-breathing dragon (a cleverly-disguised crocodile shot with the actor using double-exposure), and ride on he back of a flying horse (or Pegasus).Inside, workers shovel coal into the red-hot, glowing furnaces, surrounded by the deafening noise.Molten iron pours out into molds.Quarrelsome Bill (Richard Gere) has an undisclosed, violent altercation with his foreman, punches him to the ground, and renders him unconscious - thereby forcing him to run from the scene and leave town as a fugitive.When seen by American audiences in the early 1940s during the progress of World War II, the implication was obvious hat Hitler""s evils in Europe could also inhabit the ethos of the sacred American/western frontier.