When the maid warily opens he door and is shocked to see him, he learns that all the guests have already gone.You talk too much.If I""d known how much you talked, I""d have never come out of my coma!"According to Miss Plimsoll, he had been "expelled for conduct unbecoming a cardiac patient.The 161 minute feature film was perhaps the director""s grandest production - equaling his earlier Best Picture winnerOne Flew Over a Cuckoo""s Nest (1975)and only challenged by his later filmThe People vs." It received zero nominations during the Emmys that year.) It was the only film based on a TV drama to ever win Best Picture.As a feature film, it was one of the biggest ""sleepers"" in Hollywood history, from the independent production company of Harold Hecht and actor Burt Lancaster (Hecht-Lancaster).