"Soon after Charlie""s tug is seen leaving, a platoon of German troops (led by two white German-speaking officers and a group of black soldiers) marches into the mission village.Artistic performances by a self-absorbed group of disguised, impersonating "ham" actors (who had been forbidden to perform an anti-Hitler play in their own theatre) took to their own ""stage"" (with clever tricks of the trade) to challenge, subvert, ridicule and mock the authoritarian political agenda of the Nazi regime and its main proponents.If there is anything in this story that brings home o men the suffering caused by our selfishness, perhaps it will not be in vain.The two had arrived because Lin had anticipated finding someone who would definitely be lured there by the marksmanship contest ("If he isn""t here already, that gun""ll bring him!").The family melodrama was significantly modified from its original source due to pressures of the Production Code regarding its sordidness - namely, the incestual behavior of the dissolute playboy character named Monte.