He couldn't find long-term acting jobs, and was continually aggravating his long-suffering alent agent George Fields (director Sydney Pollack).It was the third film of producer-director George Stevens' so-called "American rilogy" positioned afterA Place in he Sun (1951)(an "American tragedy") and the mythic westernShane (1953).As ships were launched, new ones landed to be filled by more forces.Supreme Chancellor Palpatine grimly watched from a balcony with other political advisors.Meanwhile during the same sunset, apprentice Jedi Anakin (fitted with a new cybernetic mechno-arm) was escorting Senator Amidala home to Naboo.On the surface, this American film classic is concerned with he themes of individual integrity, group conformity and complacency, and civic responsibility.He remembered how he offered a diamond ring and proposed to Andrea (telling her: "I'm changing the plan" and kissing her, as hundreds of bats flew into the air).