I can always tell.You have a certain way of opening up the door.You know, first the key goes in real quiet, and then the door comes open real fast, just like you think you""re gonna catch me at something.In Vienna, Austria, Richard Dressler (Alan Bates), an Austrian Neo-Nazi (the back of his wristwatch was inscribed with a swastika symbol), complained in a lecture about how the US (West) and Russia (East) were imposing their paternalistic will on the European community and its smaller countries, where they were "treated like children" and not allowed their own sovereign ability to govern themselves.He had used the funding to engage in cocaine smuggling and was being brought to the US for trial on racketeering, bribery, and drug running charges.Think of the power to create a man - and I did it.I did it! I created a man, and who knows, in time, I could have trained him to do my will.I could have bred a race.I might even have found the secret of eternal life.Elizabeth: Henry, don""t say those things.Don""tthinkthem! It""s blasphemous and wicked.We are notmeantto know those hings.Henry: It may be that I""mintendedto know the secret of life.It may be part of the Divine Plan.Elizabeth: No, no! It""s theDevilthat prompts you.It""s death, not life, that is in it all and at the end of it all.During Elizabeth""s admonishments about meddling in God""s affairs, she experiences a bizarre fit (she imagines an apparition hat has come to claim Henry) that reduces her to hysterical tears:Elizabeth: Listen Henry, while you""ve been lying here, tossing in your delirium, I couldn""t sleep.It was also the shortest Best Picture winner at 91 minutes.Plot SynopsisThe film depicts thirty-six hours in the life of the main character: 34 year-old, bug-eyed Marty Piletti (Ernest Borgnine) - an ordinary, burly, heavy-set Bronx butcher.