Upon their arrival, Hui Fei was to receive the $20,000 reward for Chang's demise, and Reverend Carmichael had commended Lily for her sacrifice.And good does not always triumph.Sometimes the Dark Side overcomes what Lincoln called 'the better angels of our nature.' Therein, man has got a breaking point.You and I have.Walter Kurtz has reached his.And very obviously, he has gone insane.The noise of a chopper interrupts the judgement that has been pronounced.The mission involves a pilgrimage, a journey on a U.S.Navy patrol boat with a four-man crew up the jungle-lined Nung River into off-limits Cambodia to follow Kurtz's path to his remote stronghold island.Selznick,Dinner at Eight(1933) was filled with a tremendous cast of stars (inspired by the format of MGM's previous year'sGrand Hotel (1932)set at a ritzy art-deco Berlin hotel).Wagstaff: Well, what is the password?Baravelli: Aw, no! You gotta tellme.Hey, I tell what I do.I give you three guesses.It's the name of a fish.Wagstaff: Is it Mary?Baravelli: Ha-ha.That's-a no fish.Wagstaff: She isn't, well, she drinks like one.Let me see.Is it sturgeon?Baravelli: Hey you crazy! Sturgeon, he's a doctor cuts you open when-a you sick.Now I give you one more chance.Wagstaff: I got it! Haddock!Baravelli: That's-a funny.I gotta haddock, too.Wagstaff: What do you take for a haddock?Baravelli: Well-a, sometimes I take-a aspirin, sometimes I take-a Calamel.]:the United Nations Building (New York City) (a hidden camera filmed the hero's entrance up the steps into the building, but the UN lobby was a recreation)Grand Central Station (New York City)Mount Rushmore (in South Dakota) (there are shots of the exterior of the park's monument, but the actors crawled next to a reproduction of the Presidential faces)Exciting set-pieces include the seduction scenes with steamy double entendres during a cross-country train ride, the seven-minute bi-plane crop-duster attack scene near a Midwest cornfield, the auction scene, and the dangling finale at Mount Rushmore, heralded in another film poster:From the killer plane in the cornfield to the cliff-hanger on George Washington's nose, it's suspense in every direction!The director's familiar MacGuffin in this film (the device or plot element that catches the viewer's attention or drives he logic of the plot) is the secret information sought by the spies, and secondarily, the mistaken identity at the film's start.