Leo was aghast: "But that""s cheating!" Max begged for leniency and wished o avoid jail time: "I""m drowning.He told her: "The Bedouin and the Tuaregs believe that Hamunaptra is cursed." Rick discovered his old cowardly "buddy" Beni hiding on deck -- he was guiding the Americans, and was to be paid half up-front, and the balance when they returned to Cairo." Ruefully, Sullivan admits his first-hand ignorance about trouble, poverty, and misery, and the studio representatives believe they have persuaded him to reconsider and not film his next project:O Brother, Where Art Thou?- a message film that would surely fail at the box office.The film had enormous impact, especially upon returning combat-fatigued GIs from WW II who were adjusting and struggling with their own difficulties in civilian life and often turning into alcohol dependents.