Signalmen wave flags to pass a message from hill to hill.The owner snaps off the head of a stalk, rolls it between his palms, blows away the chaff, and then pops a kernel into his mouth.For the last eight hours." As a honeymooner, she smiled: "I'm having a lovely time."Their private train car was deposited on a side track in he midst of a dusty windstorm with tumbleweeds blowing about in he remote, utterly-flat Texas town of Benedict, named after Bick's family.To everyone's surprise, he studio was besieged by letters from outraged patrons (mostly Clift fans) who complained that the film didn't have a happy ending for the two lovers.The witty, nonsensical film of mistaken identities and deception is a satire on sex as an asset.The farcical plot with cynical satire effectively skewers the idle rich (millionaires) and the pursuit of money, with its story of a penniless, separated couple.