" Although Rocky almost faltered and went down to one knee, he retaliated with fury and at the fight""s final bell, both men were standing "toe to toe.With Michael in pursuit, Jamie fled to a nearby road where she took the driver""s seat of a vacated truck.George C.Scott became thefirstactor to decline his Oscar nomination for the film - in protest of fellow actors"" practice of campaigning for awards, calling the awards demeaning and self-serving.Dietrichson) during a murder plot on a train? The duplicity evident in the film, and in the film""s title and its characters, are exemplified in the film""s very first ambiguous image.