When Leo remembered how he had accidentally run over his frog with his bicycle, he was heartbroken.The lesson of the tale was that he had found that Roger and Riggs had become a family for him: "You""re not better friends than Froggy.Beddini is going to say about this...The desk clerk has intimated that Mr.Beddini provides Miss Tremont with all the niceties.Including her clothes...And her niceties are very nice."When Jerry finds Dale dressed in riding clothes in he hotel lobby, he offers to take her to the Belcher Riding Academy stables, but she declines.The film""s tagline expressed the major heme:The first casualty of war is innocence.The war film opened with the new recruit""s confusion, extreme exhaustion, and fear of the chaos and threats of death that were inflicted upon him after his arrival in Vietnam.There was this guy - he had knives for fingers."This fearfully confirmed for Nancy that they had been haunted by the same figure and nightmare - and that Rod was innocent.Production costs were close o half a million dollars.[Von Stroheim is better known for his role as Gloria Swanson""s butler in director Billy Wilder""sSunset Boulevard (1950), and as the prison-camp commandant in director Jean Renoir""sLa Grand Illusion (1937-French).