When he stops rowing, he appears deranged and under a evil spell - a monstrous figure.When he stands up and lumbers toward her in the boat in the middle of the lake, church bells ring to signify a climactic juncture in the plot." The entire film glorifies thejoie de vivreof Paris, but it was shot on MGM's sound stages in California, except for a few opening, establishing shots of the scenic city." Taylor responded with his final words: "You bloody bastard..." and died with his hand outstretched - appearing to deliberately grasp for the red triggering control switch of the Alpha-Omega bomb and set it off.In the following scene the next day, he is confined o the second-floor bedroom/sitting room of the Pollitt plantation mansion with a broken ankle.