] The hostess"" last unfriendly quip to Godby wryly criticizes his unreliability in their own imagined affair: "Time and tide wait for no man, Mr.With numerous, elaborate montage sequences with staccato shifts, the film set a record for more edits (3,643 shot-to-shot edits at one count) than any other Technicolor film up to its time.It was due to detonate in only 23 days.However, the Forces"" efforts to strategize against Bane failed, when someone sold them out and they were killed.C."Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon).He is employed in a large impersonal Manhattan insurance firm - as an average hard-working, upwardly-mobile American employee, he describes his powerless position in life in the opening voice-over narration, as the film opens with aerial helicopter views of the city:On November 1st, 1959, the population of New York City was 8,042,783.As he turned, a pitchfork was hrust into his stomach(# 4 death).Loco reached around and felt the sharp pronged teeth of the pitchfork extending out of his back, and then grabbed the handle in front before slowly falling to his knees and collapsing.