Only he""s coming down with the fever and therefore isn""t quite as valuable."Babs: "I won""t have you talk like that! I never - "Denny: "I know you won""t.The only excuse you have for being here is o help take care of him.Now get in there and give him that quinine and take a little yourself while you""re at it.Give him all the water he wants and more.The china boy will give you whatever else you need."Babs: "You""re not going to leave him? You""re not going out?"Denny: "Yes.I work here.You don""t expect me to sit around and hold his hand, do you?" (She slapped him across the face!) All right.]The Three Main Characters - Doris, Susan, and Fred:While the parade was still in progress, Doris returned to her apartment where she was told that her young 2nd grade daughter Susan Walker (8-9 year-old Natalie Wood) was watching he parade from the front apartment window of their handsome neighbor, lawyer-attorney Fred Gailey (John Payne).When it exploded, the concussion force of its shock-wave rings caused the Phantom Zone, traveling nearby, to shatter and break open - unwittingly freeing and restoring the Kryptonians as three-dimensional beings, who then flew on toward Earth.Set in the 1930s during the Great Depression era, the film""s main concerns (and those of the oppressed Tramp) echo those of millions of people at the time - unemployment, poverty, and hunger.