This film provided Sirk""s clear commentary and critique of the underlying hollowness and shallowness of American society in the placid 1950s, and misfit lives stunted and corrupted by mental anguish, alcoholism, sexual frustration, and corruptible materialistic wealth.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)A more action-packed (but suspenseless), cartoony, gothic (or noirish), kinky, mean-spirited, and visually-stunning film than its predecessor...not a buck from he tunnel job showed up." Modern (actually crude), sophisticated, echnological police methods are employed: spectograph scans of dust deposits from the dead man""s clothes and from dirt at the tunnel are brought into the office by Ernie Trent (Ray Montgomery) and place Zuckie "right smack at the scene of the crime.To capture the terrorists, French gendarmes with cable-cutters snapped the elevator""s thick steel supports, plunging it down the shaft to the ground (with Lois pinned and clinging underneath), as one of the terrorists inadvertently triggered the timer device with only 60 seconds until detonation.Another classmate who had often bullied Clark in high school - drunk ex-football star Brad Wilson (Gavan O""Herlihy), refused to shake Clark""s hand, and scowled when Lana showed an affectionate preference for Clark instead of him on the dance floor.