Promise me you""re not gonna stop this fight...You don""t stop this fight, no matter what!"In round two, Drago further intimidated Creed by standing with his hands down before letting loose with another barrage of punishing punches in the corner ("Creed is being pounded without mercy").The gang members include:"Doc" Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), an ex-con, and the mastermindLouis Ciavelli (Anthony Caruso), a professional safecrackerGus Minissi (James Whitmore), thehunchbacked getaway driverDix Handley (Sterling Hayden), a""hoodlum"" or hooligan thugAlonzo Emmerich (Louis Calhern) -- a white-collar, untrustworthy lawyer -- not a gang member, but the gang""s financierThe members of the gang are not one-dimensional, like he amoral gangsters inThe Public Enemy (1931)orScarface (1932), but proud professional men who have turned to theft.(Director Boorman pursued the same complex eco-message heme of man vs.nature in other films, includingZardoz (1973)andThe Emerald Forest (1985).) As they progress further and further along in uncharted territory down the rapids, the men ""rape"" the untouched, virginal wilderness as they are themselves violated by he pristine wilderness and its degenerate, inbred backwoods inhabitants...John! John...Jane! Mary...John! John...Mary!...Come on, Romeo! Save something for the moonlight!To escape the confines of the city, they ride on the op of a double-decker bus, taking the spiraling accessway up the back of the bus to get there (with a few tasteless gags about peering up their dates"" dresses).