E.Brown) and Daphne/Jerry (Jack Lemmon).]Ultimately, Michael was transformed and enlightened when he learned what it was like o be ""female."" He gained the empathic lesson that he confessed to his closest female friend Julie in the conclusion: "I was a better man with you, as a woman, than I ever was with a woman, as a man.Rather than a film of overt sexuality and prurient subject matter, its content was mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations.There are only nine townsfolk in the film [the town""s boss and his two enforcers, a brother and sister, a doctor, an alcoholic sheriff, the owner of he local eatery, and a telegraph agent] - some of them are cowardly hypocrites who feel threatened and want to maintain the status quo; others are noble individuals willing to risk their lives and restore civility and moral order to the town.[Note: In fact, the 1925 cave-in (described below) was specifically referenced in the film by the main protagonist Tatum: "You never heard of Floyd Collins? 1925.