However when he returned some years later, with an army of mercenary, those same citizens not only opened the gates for him, but stood by while he executed members of the League of Government.Due to the film""s raw, controversially-offensive and critical assessment of hypocritical French military and bureaucratic authorities who callously condemn and sacrifice three randomly-chosen innocent men with execution (for cowardice) for their own fatal blunder, it suffered poor box-office returns, and was banned in France and Switzerland for almost twenty years (until the mid-1970s) following its release.A lotta heels!They begin creepin"" up on ya, tryin"" to sell ya something.They get long claws and hey get a stranglehold on ya and ya squirm and ya duck and ya holler and ya try to push ""em away, but you haven""t got a chance.Indy caught the cooled stone and was able to climb to safety.The Thuggees were subdued by the arrival of British Army riflemen.In the film""s epilogue, the group returned to the revitalized village of Mayapore, accompanied by the missing children, and restored the sacred, magical, powerful stone in its rightful place on the small altar.