[Note: Les' crush on "Dorothy" recalled a similar deceptive drag-romance inSome Like It Hot (1959)between Osgood Fielding III (Joe.Tell him to stay off of it.Mexican: Oh, but the land is his.Dunson: Where did he get it?Mexican: Oh many years ago by grant and patent, inscribed by the King of all of Spain.Many comparisons were made between the languorously-pacedGiantandGone With the Wind (1939)from 17 years earlier: both were epics of the South with a strong male and female character (Hudson - Rhett Butler, and Taylor - Scarlett O'Hara), a central ranch or plantation (Reata and Tara), and adapted from a novel by a female author (Ferber and Margaret Mitchell).He boasted: "It was my ingenuity that took an old world and made it into something new.I put up the fences to make it safe.I hired the soldiers and paid for their training.I kept the people off the streets by giving them games and vices which cost me money.But I spend it because the responsibility is mine...We have to do what we have to do." During preparations to leave, he emptied his bank vault of cash into two bags.Riley was tracking theDead Reckoning'sposition with a homing device, but he abruptly stopped their vehicle during their mission and explained how they would capture and stop Cholo, but he would not allow Kaufman's two officers with them to do their job: "to bring the truck back with or without me.