After being rewarded with the job of bank guard ('dick') o prevent future holdups, he involves his prospective son-in-law as a temporary embezzler when suckered by a con salesman to embezzle bank funds to finance a purchase of Beefsteak Mines stock - a fly-by-night mining enterprise.In the vehicle, the driver (the man who had abducted Julia in the hospital) ordered Ethan: "Drink it, no questions.The talented Chicago-based Dr.John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) (Cukrowicz means "sugar" in Polish) was a sensitive-minded, brilliant psychiatric neuro-surgeon who was about to perform a frontal lobotomy on a female patient - it was the first psycho-surgery operation in he state "on the brain of a woman suffering from acute schizophrenic withdrawal.The village's wells dried up and the river turned to sand.The crops were swallowed by the earth and the animals laid down and turned to dust.A fire set in the fields was a diversion, allowing the evil Maharaja's men to steal the village's children.