e., overturning trash cans, stealing knives, meat cleavers, blowtorches and other weapons and supplies (and gathering them together), gathering red card shopping lists of humans (and altering them by adding such things as cans of kerosene or rounds of ammunition), and refusing to properly perform their daily menial tasks (light cigarettes, shine shoes, etc.The film had only two nominations and no wins for Best Sound and Best Score (Alfred Newman).Plot SynopsisThe Opening Title Credits and Prologue:The two opening itle pages of the credits announced: "RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.The allegorical and richly-layered story was considered scarier for kids and more meaningful for mature audiences, especially in a few of its well-executed scenes (the entire Pleasure Island sequence and the terrifying conversion of red-headed Lampwick into a jackass, and the Monstro whale swallowing).It also evoked such slapstick comedy classics as Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton films, the Keystone Kops, Chaplin""sModern Times (1936), the Marx Brothers""Duck Soup (1933), and more recently the Bob Hope comedies of he 1940s.The slightly-injured Fowler was rescued by US Marines arriving in Super Stallion helicopters, and taken to a Boeing E-4B NAOC (National Airborne Operations Center), an advanced airborne command post in flight (without Cabot).