The life-affirming film was both nostalgic for earlier, more idyllic and less cynical times, and the never-ending and timeless appeal of baseball.The film was a superb re-envisioning of the insightful Nicholas Ray, Eisenhower-Era melodrama about the family,Bigger Than Life (1956)- hat also critiqued the suffocating and claustrophobic conformity of 1950s middle-class life in an earlier era.He tensely warned Cabot: "For you to get involved here, it""s like sleeping with another man""s wife, and what you are suggesting is that afterward, they can all live together under the same roof.Everyone was devastated and sorrowful about her loss.In Washington DC, the President""s televised nationwide speech (about a "growing threat within our own population") from his office was interrupted when the lights went out (and the forces of nature were controlled by Storm).Indy caught the cooled stone and was able to climb to safety.The Thuggees were subdued by the arrival of British Army riflemen.In the film""s epilogue, the group returned to the revitalized village of Mayapore, accompanied by the missing children, and restored the sacred, magical, powerful stone in its rightful place on the small altar.