The modern-day, appealing classic Hollywood romantic comedy from Columbia Pictures satirized both daytime TV soap operas and the difficult NY theatre scene among other things.The film is dotted with classic sequences - the uprooting of he stubborn stump in the yard, Torrey""s murder in the muddy street and his hilltop funeral, and the climactic finale.Stan tells her:Now that you""ve got the mine, I""ll bet you""ll be a swell gold digger.Down in the bar, Finn serves them "the best in he house" (champagne) and they join a cowboy to sing: "Trail of the Lonesome Pine.The film""s script - written with the backdrop of war in Europe (and the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 and the persecution of Jews) - made timely parallels between the ostracized Jews and the race of mistreated gypsies (Romani peoples), and dramatically showed the schism between the two socio-economic classes in Paris (the ""haves"" and the ""have-nots"").Draba ignored Lady Helena""s humbs-down gesture, turned and threw his trident spear into the gallery.As he climbed up into the seating area to kill patrician Crassus, he was speared in the back by an arena guard.