During an interview, Cimino allegedly claimed that he had Singapore news clippings that confirmed Russian roulette existed during the war, but they were never conclusively identified.D.Salinger, and had written in the 1960s about the ""glory days"" of baseballDoc Archibald "Moonlight" Graham (Burt Lancaster), another ghostly figure - a beloved small-town doctor who had lived in Minnesota - a rookie player who had yearned to make it into the major leagues; he had played in only one game for the NY Giants in 1905, but never came to batThe film reached its climax with Mann""s famous monologue on the place of baseball in American history, and the mythical "magic" of the field (of dreams) and its baseball diamond that would bring housands to the place."In Los Angeles - In His Shared Apartment:In the city of Los Angeles, the Boy shared a rented room with his Pal - "Limpy" Bill (Bill Strother, with a real ability as a "Human Spider" act), a very agile construction worker.The film was remade in 1957 with David Niven as the "forgotten man" and June Allyson (in her next-to-last film) as the Lombard character.