[A record of sorts, it was thefirstUS feature film to show a bathroom with a toilet bowl.]With a novice actor (James Murray) in the lead role, he film was simply a realistic, bittersweet drama of the existence of an ordinary common and average American (an Everyman prototype embodied in a white-collar worker) trying to make it with his wife in the monolithic big city - but without any maudlin sentimentality, extreme passion, exploitation of romance, or escapist melodrama.As the Nexus approached closer, Soran and Picard fought hand-to-hand - as Soran successfully launched his trilithium missile probe at the Veridian star, and both men were sucked into the ribbon following the blast; Picard found himself enjoying Christmas with his family (and a reunion with his favorite deceased nephew Renee who died in a fire), but then realized that he was in the unreal temporal Nexus ("This can""t be real"), and was told by Guinan, also in the Nexus, that he needed to get help from Captain Kirk, also happily entrenched there reliving his past (after being drawn into the Nexus 78 years earlier); after convincing Kirk to help him stop Soran ("Make a difference again") and save millions of lives, the two Captains materialized back on Veridian IIIjust beforeSoran was to launch his missile and destroy the star.This film foreshadowed other great, more complex westerns hat Ford would later direct -The Searchers (1956)andThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).Jolson was given the lead after Eddie Cantor and George Jessel denied Warners"" offer to play the title role.Lehman: You may have heard me lecture...I usually alk about nervous disorders.I am a psychiatrist.Susan: Oh! Crazy people.Dr.Lehman: We dislike the use of that word.All people who behave strangely are not insane...Susan: What would you say about a man who follows a girl around?...Dr.Lehman (listening intently): Follows her around?...Susan: And then when she talks to him he fights with her?Dr.Lehman: Fights with you?...Is the young man your fiancee?Susan: Oh no, I don""t know him.I never even saw him before today.(Blithely) No, he just follows me around and fights with me.Dr.Lehman: Well, the love impulse in men very frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.Susan: The love impulse!Dr.Lehman: Without my knowing anything about it, my rough guess would be that he has a fixation on you.As she walks away from the psychiatrist""s table, she mistakenly takes the purse that belongs to his wife (Tala Birell), hinking it is hers [her errors from the golf game and in the parking lot are compounded here].