S.Cavalry soldiers - good guys.They appear heroically-positioned, riding stiffly and formally into a dusty town (San Rafael, also called Starbuck) along railroad tracks."The restaurant-lunch scene, the second scene in the film, is one of the film""s funniest.During the meal, Walter deliberately sits between Bruce and Hildy.He congratulates the bridegroom on his choice of a star reporter: "...You""re getting a great little girl for yourself...You""re getting something else too, Bruce, you""re getting a great newspaperman...One of the best I ever knew.Sorry o see her go.Darn sorry, Hildy." Bruce wonders if Hildy has any doubts about leaving the newspaper business and then realizes his is her first chance "to have a home and to be like you said - a human being, and I""m gonna make you take that chance...What do they feed you, all you men who are in Pittsburgh?Sean: Steel...Steel and pig iron furnaces so hot a man forgets his fear of hell.When you""re hard enough, tough enough, other things, other things Michaeleen.Father Lonergan, who is afoot on the winding road and meets them, narrates: "Now then, here comes myself.By sending her away as he hurries to the bomb site, he inadvertently sends her directly into "harm" on the streets.After taking care of affairs of state, the governor unzips his pants and resumes his lustful tete-a-tete with his half-naked, dance-hall secretary behind the curtain: "Affairs of state must take precedent over, uh, the affairs of state.