[A number of the film""s most violent moments occur off-screen, e.g., the opening suicide, the bar-fly""s torture and killing, the car explosion, the scalding with hot coffee, Larry Gordon""s death, etc.Thumper""s family, a quail and its line of baby chicks, and other animals rushed to see, while calling for the Owl to wake up as he grumbled: "What now?" Thumper and other siblings told the Owl about the new event: "Wake up.Unarguably, the Paramount Studios film is campy, grandiose and unreal and ludicrous historically - filled with DeMille""s usual mixture of sin and sex.David Dreyfuss (Jack Kruschen) mistakes him for a 20th century Don Juan lothario and alcoholic, but he doesn""t dissuade his neighbor""s perception:The way you""re beltin"" that stuff, you must have a pair of cast-iron kidneys.