This film was both more somber and dark, and also left the viewer with a ""cliffhanger"" ending; however, it had a very complex and sophisticated plot involving time-travel.It was his 115th feature film, and he was already a four-time Best Director Oscar winner (The Informer (1935),The Grapes of Wrath (1940),How Green Was My Valley (1941), andThe Quiet Man (1952)) - all for his pictures of social comment rather than his quintessential westerns.Once the group arrived at the edge of the Mirkwood Forest, at the Elven Gate, Bilbo commented: "This forest feels sick.The gangland killer bids Charlie farewell ("Goodbye, Charlie"), averts his eyes, and signals the machine-gun massacre.