Many years later, the film became a Broadway adaptation - thesecondlongest running American musical in Broadway history behindA Chorus Line.Dreyfus claimed: "I""m saving he human race." He held up the remote C-4 trigger, pressed the button, and self-destructively ignited the explosives.Detective - before you clean up any mysteries - clean up this theater." As he began sweeping up a pile of trash in the aisle way, he removed his fake mustache and pocketed it.The director""s last surviving silent film (and MGM""s last major silent) was essentially a dust bowl tale of a vulnerable young woman""s plight in an alien and fearful environment (of ever-present male sexual advances and violations by the wind) - it could therefore be called the progenitor of all ""women""s pictures"".