One of the film""s posters carried a tagline related to the character""s rebelliousness:"The man...and the motion picture that simply do not conform."With this vivid film, director Stuart Rosenberg made one of the key films of the 1960s, a decade in which protest against established powers was a key theme.Duke Henry""s men arrived to help bring victory as the almost-vanquished forces of Lord Arthur struggled to fight off the skeletal soldiers and protectively defend against the taking of the Necronomicon book.The unimpressed onlookers in the room, all racist whites (including the useless doctor), were obviously affronted when witnessing he unresponsive victim""s invasion of privacy by a black man""s contact.Although it was nominated in four categories for Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Actor (William Powell), Best Director (W.