His next-door Jewish neighbor Mrs.Dreyfuss (Naomi Stevens) comments: "Such a racket I heard in your place - maybe you had burglars." Inside his place, he must clean up the mess left behind by his guests.Kirkeby rushes back in to retrieve Sylvia""s forgotten galoshes, promising: "I put in a good word for you with Sheldrake, in Personnel.He belong to Miss Melanie..." BackgroundGiant (1956)is a sprawling, grandiose and iconic western epic and melodrama based on Edna Ferber""s celebrated 1952 novel.Defensive preparations were made at Helm""s Deep, and although the situation looked dire and impossible, a battalion of Elf reinforcements arrived from Rivendell, led by Haldir (Craig Parker).Naturally, men are gonna have to be killed, possibly a lot of them.They""ll absorb bullets and shrapnel, and by doing so make it possible for others to get through...say five percent killed by our own barrage - that""s a very generous allowance.Ten percent more again in no man""s land, and twenty percent more again into the wire.That leaves sixty-five percent, and the worst part of the job over.Let""s say another twenty-five percent in actually aking the Ant Hill - we""re still left with a force more than adequate o hold it.