In the tale""s grim ending, she begged the town""s executioner to chop off her feet to end her incessant dancing, but the shoes continued o dance with her dismembered, amputated feet still inside." Bankrupt and broke from the Stock Market Crash in 1929, a wild-eyed Marsh is only interested in recouping his economic fortunes:Barry: That""s what we got you for Julian - Julian Marsh, the greatest musical comedy director in America today.In the same year, another William Powell film -The Great Ziegfeld- won the Best Picture and Best Actress awards, and Powell also appeared inLibeled Lady (1936)andAfter he Thin Man (1936).Devastated by his recent personal setbacks, Peter lost his web-producing and wall-climbing powers and decided to make a personal choice (while having a vision of his final conversation with Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson)): "I want a life of my own.Shot on location in the steamy, colorful, dense tropical jungles of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the story""s theme is the futility and insanity of war, and the irony of British pride, viewed through he psychological, confrontational struggle of imperialistic wills between a proud and rigid British and Japanese Colonel.