Poelzig had built his mansion overlooking a great bloody battlefield, directly on the site of Fort Marmorus - "the greatest graveyard in the world":All of this country was one of the greatest battlefields of the war.And he film stirred new controversy when it was voted into theNational Film Registryin 1993, and when it was voted one of the "Top 100 American Films" (at # 44) by theAmerican Film Institutein 1998.Salieri followed four servants carrying large trays of food and sweets from the Grand Salon into a Buffet Room, and stealthily entered after they withdrew.Ben isn""t really asleep and slugs Powell in he face, tumbling him out of bed.Harper stoically refuses to tell him its location even after continual badgering.Powell has heard Harper quoting Scripture, hinting at a clue: "And a little child shall lead them." Harper explains his motives for robbing the bank during the hard times of the Depression - to keep his children from being hungry and homeless:I got tired of seein"" children roamin"" the woodlands without food.Along the way under the heat and lash, many prisoners die.When they stop enroute at the small town of Nazareth for water, the slaves are permitted o drink only after the soldiers and their horses are finished.