She scurries away, and he scuds right up to her.She cries a little, and there you have your shower.He comforts her.They spark.That""s the lightning.They kiss.Thunder!First, he sings "Isn""t This a Lovely Day?" to break down her haughty defenses and change her mood.He had developed SkyNet as "one of the digital defense systems" - and he was the "one who can shut SkyNet down.Other comedies in 1934 that were juxtaposed and unusually successful includedThe Thin Man (1934), W.C.Fields""It""s A Gift (1934), and Howard Hawks""Twentieth Century (1934).For a six-year period, Dietrich was Svengali director von Sternberg""s favorite leading lady - this was their sixth film ogether (and last great collaboration).Due to the more realistic depiction of he misguided war already successfully seen in two late 1970s films,The Deer Hunter (1978)andApocalypse Now (1979), this war epic almost wasn""t funded.The most celebrated segments in the film are a marathon, prolonged erotic kissing scene (that circumvented the ""three-second"" censor""s restrictions), a swooping camera crane shot down to an extreme closeup of the wine-cellar key held in Bergman""s hand (posters for the film always included a key motif), the wine-cellar sequence, and the suspenseful final scene with masterful inter-cutting.