This intelligent film about romance and justice, a blend of the serious and lighthearted, exemplified he trend toward ""social themed"" films that arose in the 40s, in such films asHow Green Was My Valley (1941),The Grapes of Wrath (1940),Mrs.Rocky, Adrian, brother-in-law Paulie (Burt Young), and Tony flew home from Moscow to the US (on a Soviet Aeroflot plane), where he was greeted on the tarmac by US flags and a band playing "Gonna Fly Now," and his young son Robert/Rocky Jr.When light dawns, it turns out that the eyes actually belong to the friendly woodland animals and cute creatures of the forest.].The semi-trashy, crime drama""s suggestive hemes included implied impotence, sadomasochism, misogyny and homosexuality, although liberally camouflaged by euphemisms and innuendo to bypass he Production Code; its main theme was a strange, tawdry, aberrant romantic triangle (menage a trois) between the three main characters (husband, wife, and lover) - with homo-erotic overtones." He would use it to create artificial life: "a being who""s more powerful than him, with total allegiance to me.