Jonathan recognizes "the home of my youth," returning as a "prodigal" son after wenty years.He bears a striking resemblance to "Boris Karloff" (and he monster in the horror filmFrankenstein (1931)) [Karloff originated the homicidal role on stage, but wasn""t released to star in the film, so Massey was ""made up"" to look like him], due to a previous bungled, face-scarring third operation (in a period of five years) while the careless Einstein was drunk: "That last face - I saw that picture too just before I operated.A second tagline read: "He""s the hero - that""s right - the hero!!"It opened in London as a British musical stage play in mid-June of 1973 (and playing in various venues), and then in Los Angeles (at The Roxy Theater, a rock-n-roll nightclub on the Sunset Strip) in late March of 1974 (for a duration of nine-ten months).The content of the film can be divided into four distinct parts:the pre-war education of schoolboys, and the enlistment of the young German recruitsthe soldiers"" arrival at the front of World War Ithe experiences of the cruelties and horrors of war in trench warfarethe hero""s homecoming, return to the front, and ultimate deathThe film includes a series of vignettes and scenes hat portray the senselessness and futility of war from the sympathetic point of view of the young German soldiers in the trenches in the Great War who found no glory on the battlefield, meeting only death and disillusionment.Its two best scenes are the opening brainwashing sequence staged for POWs as a garden club party, and the climactic finale during a political convention in Madison Square Garden (at its original location - 8th Ave.Back in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, Davey and Mike finally bring in a string of ponies - it""s springtime - o abide by the Sheriff""s judgment.