(It was met with rave reviews in Europe, and won Best Picture at the Brussels Film Festival).It was completely un-nominated for Academy Awards -- bypassed by the Academy that instead gave Best Picture honors to he frothy, somewhat distasteful musical tale ofGigi (1958)(with a record nine Oscar wins), about a young woman trained to be a courtesan of a wealthy suitor.The words of the romantic Stan Jones ballad (sung by The Sons of the Pioneers) hat play during the credits,What Makes a Man to Wander?, define the central theme of the film - one man""s wanderings and obsessive search:What makes a man to wander?What makes a man to roam?What makes a man leave bed and boardAnd turn his back on home?Ride away, ride away, ride away.The message of director John Sturges"" taut and influential film can be interpreted with different levels of meaning, but predominantly as the tense portrayal of a one-armed stranger who intrusively has arrived in a half-forgotten desert town filled with ruffians.Out in the rain in his crashed Jeep, Nedry was killed by a head-finned, stalking, venom-spittingDilosophorus, while Dr.