《The Thumb Print (Short 1911)》Storyline
Ka-chunk! Ka-chunk! Ka-chunk! Fuel to burn.They got the lot: power, lights, you name it.You bet your life they mean to keep it.Thirty of ""em in there.Arrows, flame-throwers, guns! No place for man or reptile, l thought.Then this trash arrived.Moths to a flame.Round and round, attack, attack, like angry ants, mad with the smell of gasoline.In the tanker, that""s where hey keep it.Thousands of gallons, much as you want.lf anyone""s gonna get in there, it""s gonna be you."While the Gyro Captain was chained to a tree stump, he dehumanized Max resorted to his regular meal of dog food - eaten with his bare hands.That""s an edge, brother.Without an edge, there ain""t no tough guy.[The implication is that Bannister""s wealth ("bankroll in (his) pocket") provides him with most of his edge, something hat Michael will soon find out.The dragon represented worldly power and the woman represented Israel, oppressed in her innocence by the wicked.A sub-par sequel, titledThe Evening Star (1996)found Shirley MacLaine reprising her role fifteen years later, as a grand-mother to her daughter Emma""s three children, and Jack Nicholson with only a short cameo appearance.Grinning, Grisby asks about his killing of a Franco spy in Spain in 1939, and then makes a bizarre proposal to the Black Irishman regarding murder:Mr.