Then the priest asks a second, more pointed question: "How can we call ourselves Christians and protect these murderers with our silence?" Terry sits at the back of the parish during the meeting, viewed suspiciously: "The brother of Charley the Gent." Groot reinforces what Dunson must be thinking: "We shoulda took her along." [Fen""s opinion about joining them is paid for with her life.] They camp that night with their backs to the river for protection.After hearing bird calls (as signals) before an impending Indian attack, they take a stand against a small war party of Comanches.[Note: Their coupling immortalized them as a fantastic screen duo, joining others in the annals of cinematic history, such as Bogie and Bacall, Tracy and Hepburn, Garland and Rooney, Lewis and Martin, Astaire and Rogers, Day and Hudson, Hope and Crosby, and Newman and Redford.This provocative film did for the Vietnam War genre whatThe Godfatherdid for the gangster movie.After a three to four year wait for the notorious film (that brought other award-winning Vietnam war films to the forefront a year earlier -The Deer Hunter (1978)andComing Home (1978)), the film that was budgeted at $12-13 million was something of an extravagant, self-indulgent epic in the making that cost almost $31 million - with much of the film shot on location in the Philippines.