Troops have been rushed across the Potomac River from Fort Myer and have thrown a cordon around the ship.The film lost both the Best Director and Best Picture awards to Robert Redford""sOrdinary People (1980).] Groups of dark-uniformed workers, in rows of six as in the shift-change sequence, march up the stairs in unison toward the mouth, as the Moloch monster is transformed back into the machine in Freder""s eyes.The film""s theme - of an outsider-protagonist who transforms the occupants of a Southern chain gang institution and tragically sacrifices himself at the end - resembles the anti-hero character inOne Flew Over the Cuckoo""s Nest (1975).She took the arm of the esteemed doctor as she conversed about her problems of perpetual aging, and ushered him toward her son""s outdoor garden.