Thepremise or thematic plot of the film was similar to Raoul Walsh""sA Lion Is In the Street (1953)with James Cagney, and the biographical dramaBlaze (1989)with Paul Newman." Edmund taunted the screeching serpent before it was smashed into the rocks.Meanwhile, the wounded Dragon crash-landed on a sandy island beach on Ramandu""s Island, where Aslan approached, roared, and turned the Dragon back into young Eustace.Therefore, she wishes to savor the fleeting joys and passions she experienced for the first time in her married life:This can""t last.Following the film""s production, it was severely edited by the studio and producer Phil Feldman (in Peckinpah""s absence), cutting its length by about twenty minutes - remarkably, none of he excised film was violent.