One of the film""s underlying objectives was to portray he threatening German military leaders as incompetent and bungling, deluded, frightened of their leader, vulnerable, stupid and foolish.At the Friar""s Fat Boy drive-in, they ordered a Medieval Meal and other food items, and then continued their conversation.[Note: Hitchcock made his customary cameo seated across from them at the round, white table-clothed table.Two years earlier, another Western filmDances With Wolves (1990)took the top honor.The first Western to win he Best Picture Oscar wasCimarron (1930/1931).Plot SynopsisA frontier home, lone tree, golden sunset, and a man digging a grave site are silhouetted on the horizon in the opening, long-shot image.