To accentuate the claustrophobic, narrow corridor of the home""s staircase, the camera is placed in a fixed position at the top of the stairs for the sustained shot.He speaks to the errified woman who is naked under her trenchcoat:Hammer: Thumb isn""t good enough for you.Wyler had experienced wartime himself in the US Army Air Corps, during which he made three morale-boosting, war-related documentaries:The Fighting Lady (1944),The Memphis Belle (1944), andThunderbolt (1945).Thirty years from now when you""re sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee, and he asks you: ""What did you do in the Great World War II?"", you won""t have to say: ""Well, I shoveled s--t in Louisiana.You may not be an animal, Spartacus, but this sorry show gives me very little hope that you will ever be a man.