.."The setting was thirty years after the Battle of Endor and the defeat of the Galactic Empire, portrayed inEpisode VI - Return of the Jedi.After the clock spins from 3:40 am [an obvious discontinuity problem] to 8:00 am, the pool attendant opens the venetian blinds and floods the room with bright sunlight - Fats winces and orders: "Will you cut that sunshine out?" By breakfast time, Eddie is ahead - they have accumulated "eleven thousand, four hundred cash, here and in my pocket" according to Charlie, who insists: "The pool game is over.When Takagi refused, Gruber shot him point-blank in the head.The terrorists were forced to try to hack into the vault "the hard way." Theo told Gruber that it would take a half-hour o break the code, and two and a half hours to disable six other mechanical locks on the vault, leaving the seventh and final lock ("the electromagnetic seal") with circuits that could not be cut locally.A loud-ticking clock on the wall reads 2:01 am as time passes.A reporter enters the room - and then in a smooth continuous shot, a guilty-looking Bert Pierce (Bruce Bennett) enters - Mildred""s first husband.[Note: In fact, for all of Stewart""s Universal western films (includingBend of the River (1952), andThe Far Country (1954)), Stewart ook no salary in exchange for a large cut of the profits -- a very lucrative deal.