The film""s entire story was an elaboration of the first scene in Wilder""s directorial debut filmThe Major and the Minor (1942).While imprisoning Henrietta away underground, both Jake and Ed were grabbed by the face - Ed was thrown into a wall and knocked out, and Henrietta""s dislodged eyeball was propelled in the air into Bobby Joe""s mouth.After police surrounded the house and Logan was ordered o drop the knives (his knuckle-blades), he said he couldn""t retract hem - and was shot in the forehead (but he soon healed and survived).The natives are rounded up and herded off as forced soldiers or slave laborers.A distraught Rose helplessly watches as her shattered, fragile older brother deliriously suffers a fever and nervous breakdown.