" Filmed on location in Italy, it was the most commercially successful Shakespeare film and its most entertaining, refreshing and natural rendition - a passionate celebration of young love.Several songs from the Broadway production were dropped, while several new songs were written.With the exception of only one song, the tunes were sung by only two of the characters, Sally and the MC, on the Kit Kat Club""s stage, sometimes with an entourage of sleazy female musicians or dancers.With this one fluid scene, it illustrates how Alice is a naive, energetic, fiercely determined, imaginative, and impoverished young girl who is painfully shamed by her social status, while projecting hopefully-optimistic mannerisms that she is prosperous.In a dramatic entrance, the incomparable Katczinsky arrives with a pig over his shoulders.Obviously, he has learned how to live amidst the horrors and deprivations of war.He instructs he young recruits: "Some time, I""m going to take one of you volunteers apart - find out what makes you leave school and join he army.We have to get ready for him." Dan was scheduled for surgery in fifteen minutes - and Alice feared she wouldn""t have enough time to finally vanquish Freddy - she feared Dan would be next if he was put under: "They""re gonna kill him.