Previous films had only made fun of drunks and lushes (e.g.,The Thin Manseries, or W.C.Fields"" films).Its release was threatened when the alcohol industry offered to purchase the film""s negative and remove it from circulation, but then praised and supported the film following its popular release (and critical success).Candidates names were placed in the magical Goblet of Fire for the TriWizard contest, for champion selection, to win the TriWizard cup.]The Issue of the Education of Tenant-Farmer""s Son Marvin Blake:Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess), the son of over-worked, poverty-stricken tenant-farmer father Tom Blake (David Landau) and Lilly (Dorothy Peterson), was interested in bettering himself, rather han following in his father""s footsteps as a tenant farmer in the rural town of Jonesville.At the same time, US military jet fighters and helicopters commanded by Colonel Hardy were dispatched to the farm town and fired missiles at all three aliens.