They have a fist-fight on the tender until they fall.The bandit has the advantage - he lands on top of the fireman.He takes a lump of coal and strikes the fireman on the head until he is unconscious.Then after overpowering him, he hurls the victim""s body off the top of the moving train.[This was a startling special effect, although it was only a dummy figure.] The two bandits force the engineer to bring the train to a stop.Scene 5: Side-view of the stopped train:At gunpoint, the engineer is forced to leave the locomotive, and walk back to uncouple the locomotive from the rest of the passenger cars.It was one of he first films with the theme of city-dwellers against the powerful forces of nature.The exciting box-office hit, most remembered for its inspired banjo duel and the brutal, violent action (and sodomy scene), was based on James Dickey""s adaptation of his own 1970 best-selling novel (his first) of the same name - he contributed the screenplay and acted in a minor part as the town sheriff.Orphaned, he had been systematically abused by his grandmother (in voiceover flashback, she repeatedly called him dirty and disgusting, and a "filthy little beast," and threatened to cut off his erect penis with a pair of scissors, as she warned him: "If you ever make your bed dirty again, I""ll cut it off").It was clear from their conversation that the two had experienced a failed dating relationship together, when he responded: "It""s all about control with you.Two other films of Shakespeare""s story, versions of he Prokofiev ballet, were:Paul Czinner""s balletic version ofRomeo and Juliet (1966, UK)with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, and Renato Castellani""s 1954 British-Italian versionRomeo and Juliet (1954, It.