The change in policy (and the frequency of inter-racial relationships) necessitated that the ending of the film diverge from Michener's novel.He got o howlin' "Repent! Repent!" and I got to moanin' "Save me! Save me!" And the first thing I knew, he rammed the fear of God into me so fast I never heard my old man's footsteps! The next thing I knew, I was out in the cold, hard snow in my bare little soul.]The main criticisms of the albeit intriguing and highly entertaining film were mostly about the many substantial liberties aken regarding the historical Mozart with highly-fictionalized distortions of historical fact to create better drama, including - (1) the fabrication of an intense rivalry between Salieri and Mozart and the many attempts at sabotage to destroy his career that ultimately led to Mozart's premature demise, (2) the horrible American accents by many of the cast members, representing the vernacular German, (3) Salieri's portrayal as a mediocre composer (which he wasn't), and as a chaste bachelor although he was married and had eight children, and reportedly had soprano-pupil Caterina Cavalieri as a mistress, (4) the fact that Mozart had two surviving children instead of only one, and (5) theRequiem Masswas commissioned not by a disguised Salieri but anonymously by a vain, plagiarist - German aristocrat Count Walsegg-Stuppach (known at the time as the mysterious 'Grey Messenger'), and the completion of the unfinishedMasswas by Mozart's assistant, composer/conductor Franz Xaver Süssmayr - it wasn't dictated to Salieri.She believes he had ordered a taxi back to New York.Thornhill, unable to convince anyone of the truth, is aghast by her fabricated story of the night's events and her deceptive acting: "What a performance!"Thornhill demands to see Lester Townsend and is told hat he is at the United Nations building where he is due to address he General Assembly that afternoon.The film has been criticized as being incomprehensible, due possibly to the studio's pressure to shoot retakes of various scenes to avoid criticism about its sordid subject matter.