"Master of Disaster" Apollo Creed was "in the best shape of his illustrious career." They also noted: "There is a definite desire for Apollo to draw first blood to end it quickly.This could prove his claim that the last fight was a fluke." In terms of their records, Creed was undefeated while was the first man ever to knock Creed down." He bragged about his upgraded facilities: "I wonder if you""d like to see my bathroom? It has hot and cold running water all day." The giant Non struggled to duplicate Ursa""s vision powers that he had not yet mastered.On the outskirts of East Houston, Idaho (a "Middle-American town"), the three Kryptonites blocked the road, denying passage to a police car carrying the paunchy local Sheriff (Clifton James) and his deputy Dwayne (Peter Whitman).We gotta let ""em move in right under our noses and take it all away from us, or else.Gang: No!Riff: You""re damned right NO.So what are we gonna do buddy-boys? I""ll tell ya what we""re gonna do.We""re gonna speed fast.We""re gonna move like lightnin"".And we""re gonna clean them Sharks up once and for all so they ain""t never gonna set foot on our turf again."]As in many of his films, director Kubrick explores he dimensions of the genre to create the ultimate horror film of a man going mad due to many factors (including alcohol abuse), aspiring writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson), while serving as an off-season caretaker of an isolated, snowbound resort (the Overlook) with his family: wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd).