The troops were clad in heavy chainmail and iron boots.[Note: There were now three of five armies assembled to battle it out.] Gandalf again intervened o try and prevent a war between the Elves, Dwarves, and Men, by warning: "A legion of Orcs march on the Mountain.Gordon.The insane Nygma""s project was terminated, although he feverishly worked on it.Caught in his cubicle late at night by his angered supervisor Fred Stickley (Ed Begley, Jr.) and threatened with expulsion, he used Stickley as a guinea pig for his experiment on brain waves.When Stickley ordered him fired ("You demented, bizarre unethical toad! It is brain manipulation"), Nygma pushed Fred (still wearing the intelligence-sucking head contraption) in his swivel chair through the side window to his eventual death ("You are fired, or should I say terminated?"), while grabbing the device from his head at the last minute..."Unlike many of their other features, there are no romantic subplots (with Zeppo) and no musical interludes that stop the film""s momentum - no harp solos for Harpo and no piano solos for Chico.Utterly devoted to her brother, high-collared, fervent, perspiring Rose pedal-pumps and plays the organ to assist the uncomprehending natives in noisy, atonal hymn singing - in the semi-comic scene....They were paid to come, so they can""t go away." And then Sister Briony from the dispensary burst in with similar news: "The General""s clerk has orders to pay everybody who comes to my dispensary.