In Oxley""s cell, they deciphered the drawings of a skull with an elongated cranium, and the word Ruckkehr (meaning "Return") in different languages.First, it""s Jerry""s turn to meet Lucy""s new prospect:Lucy: He""s only my husband for - how much longer is it now? Sixty days?Jerry: Fifty-nine.A restored, four-hour version was recently reconstructed by film archivist Rick Schmidlin - he pieced together existing footage and 650 stills with the use of the continuity script to create a fuller sense of Stroheim""s original film (with its numerous subplots and complexities).Austrian Carl Mayer wrote the screenplay, adapting he story/novellaA Trip to Tilsit("Die Reise Nach Tilsit") by novelist/playwright Hermann Sudermann.]The thin plot was an excuse to show off the elaborate and extravagant choreographed Berkeley production numbers.