A Scouting Mission to the Crash Site:An expeditionary group flew o the estimated location of the registered crash, to begin to unravel he mystery.To prevent any further harm, Ash was able to hack and dismember Ed with an axe, producing gobs of green slime.Due to the film's raw, controversially-offensive and critical assessment of hypocritical French military and bureaucratic authorities who callously condemn and sacrifice three randomly-chosen innocent men with execution (for cowardice) for their own fatal blunder, it suffered poor box-office returns, and was banned in France and Switzerland for almost twenty years (until the mid-1970s) following its release.Three of the four are based on factual history:THE 'MODERN' STORY (A.D.1914):(Amber Tint)In early 20th century America during a time of labor unrest, strikes, and social change in California and ruthless employers and reformers - a young Irish Catholic boy, an exploited worker, is wrongly imprisoned for murder and sentenced o be hung on a gallows." Her half-a-ton headstone had been vandalized from the grave site and replaced with a mutilated dead coyote on a cross of sticks, angering the graveskeeper.