Although MGM star Clark Gable was expected to play the role of the dashing Charlestonian war profiteer Rhett Butler, Errol Flynn, Ronald Colman, and Gary Cooper were also considered for the part.They were a peaceful ribe, setting traps, fishing, hunting.And there was a custom among them.Every July, when the heat and the humidity on the island became unbearable, they would send their wives and children away for the summer, up the river to the cooler highlands, or, if they could afford it, to the seashore.As before, Superman intercepted the missile in space and hurled it into the sun, but this time, the explosion""s fireball erupted from the sun""s surface and discharged a newly-energized, solar-powered super-human in a black and gold costume with a cape -- known as "Nuclear Man" (Mark Pillow, in his sole performance ever in a film), who flew to Earth""s Metropolis.Whether Lee Harvey Oswald was inspired by the film is open to question.Since then, the fictional film has attracted a cultish following for its tense, intriguing, relevant, and sophisticated story-line and symbolism (superbly filmed with innovative cinematography by Lionel Lindon)...And he swallowed it.He looked in his heart and he thought, in all humility, how he""d like to try and change things.He was just a country boy who thought that even the plainest, poorest man can be governor if his fellow citizens find that he""s got the stuff for the job.