They were making demands of the French government, while threatening to explode a Hydrogen bomb (hidden in an oil drum) and level the city.If you""re lucky, you get to stay in the perimeter at night and then you pull a three-hour guard shift, so maybe you sleep three, four hours a night, but you don""t really sleep.It turned out to be a classic, dark-toned, dimly-lit moody film based on the 1959 novelMcCabeby Edmund Naughton, about a naive, non-conformist, bearded anti-hero -- a vain- glorious cardsharp in the snowy Northwest rather than the hot dusty Southwest.[Note: When this film project and its production went o David O.Selznick, Busch went on to produce Raoul Walsh""s haunting film-noirish psychological westernPursued (1947)with Robert Mitchum.Danny Kaye starred as ex-acrobat and minstrel entertainer Hubert Hawkins, one of the members of the "Merry Men" of The Black Fox (Edward Ashley), a Robin Hood-esque or Zorro-like hero/outlaw who was leading a group of rebel loyalists o protect the throne from usurpation.