Part Two:On the way to the front lines after being ordered here by rail, the new recruits disembark in a shell-torn French own.While searching for his papers, Mortimer opens up the window seat where he stumbles upon and discovers the results of his spinster aunts"" latest charity act - a dead body.It was a superior remake of William Wellman""s non-musical, classic 1937 film of the same name starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.After docking in the lunar dawn, they walk toward the monolith""s location wearing spacesuits.They view the monolith, the ranscendent discovery, from the lip of a giant, excavated pit, while a three-quarters Earth hangs just above the horizon.