]The opportunistic ""stranger""instinctively asked to confirm the location of the back door for a quick exit, returned to his horse to retrieve something from his pack, then re-entered with a dark red cloth.Michael claimed he liked to make and wear masks: "it hides my face...it hides my ugliness."Over time, Michael""s "normal moments" became increasingly fewer and fewer - Loomis believed the masks created "a mental sanctuary" in which Michael hid within himself and from himself.He remarks that she""s no cousin of his.Laura Belle suggests that Pearl ignore his sneering remarks.Immediately, the volatile, tempestuous Pearl becomes he center of an emotional struggle between McCanles"" two sons, the older one - the spoiled, lecherous, vicious, undisciplined, swaggering no-good Lewt McCanles (Gregory Peck), and the quiet, educated, stable, genteel, good son Jesse.It produced many memorable films, includingThe Vikings (1958),Spartacus (1960),Lonely Are the Brave (1962), andSeven Days in May (1964)." Caesar vowed: "I must do something to stop him." Blue Eyes offered o aid his weakened father.At the site of the fortified bus, Blue Eyes drew he four-pointed star image (the shape of the Rodman""s attic window), o alert those inside that they would soon be rescued.