MARTIN W.SEMPLE FINANCIER, DIES IN ITALYEuropean Tour Ends in Tragic CrashCIVIC LEADER KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT!Trustees of Semple Estate Declares Huge Fortune Close to Twenty MillionDISCLOSURE OF BANKER""S WILL AWAITEDAttorney Cedar, Representative of Semple Estate, to Disclose Contents of WillSEMPLE HEIR AS YET UNKNOWN!Investigators Searching for Heir to Semple MillionsThree of the main characters from the big city are introduced in the next scene.]After MGM acquired stage and film rights to Baum""s book (for $35,000), a Broadway stage-play version was first planned as a test of its popularity.They were pursued on their arduous trek by the cave creature Gollum (physically and mentally deformed and corrupted - obsessed with repossessing the Ring for himself), thinking that they were thieves who had stolen his "My precious".]:the United Nations Building (New York City) (a hidden camera filmed the hero""s entrance up the steps into the building, but the UN lobby was a recreation)Grand Central Station (New York City)Mount Rushmore (in South Dakota) (there are shots of the exterior of the park""s monument, but the actors crawled next to a reproduction of the Presidential faces)Exciting set-pieces include the seduction scenes with steamy double entendres during a cross-country train ride, the seven-minute bi-plane crop-duster attack scene near a Midwest cornfield, the auction scene, and the dangling finale at Mount Rushmore, heralded in another film poster:From the killer plane in the cornfield to the cliff-hanger on George Washington""s nose, it""s suspense in every direction!The director""s familiar MacGuffin in this film (the device or plot element that catches the viewer""s attention or drives he logic of the plot) is the secret information sought by the spies, and secondarily, the mistaken identity at the film""s start.