This film provided Sirk""s clear commentary and critique of the underlying hollowness and shallowness of American society in the placid 1950s, and misfit lives stunted and corrupted by mental anguish, alcoholism, sexual frustration, and corruptible materialistic wealth.Mayer""s 23 year-old daughter Irene Mayer in 1930), but he agreed when asked to fill in for MGM""s ailing "Boy Wonder" producer Irving Thalberg.The dinosaurs were very realistically-rendered and seamlessly integrated within live-action sequences.He told Mickey about the knock-out defeat in the second round (misinterpreted by Mickey as a win for Rocky), to which the delirious trainer replied: "I love you, kid" - before expiring.