Tamara had drawn all her major organs (her heart and stomach) on her bare skin ("Take a closer look, Charles.They crashed through a window, and Jason was stabbed with a metal rake and hit with a shovel, while Steven suffered multiple rake-handle and shovel hits and was thrown into a jungle-jim metal scaffolding [used in Hitchcock""sThe Birdsscene in front of a school house].You are about to witness the most amazing, the most astounding living monstrosity of all time.(woman""s scream) Friends - she was once a beautiful woman.A royal prince shot himself for love of her.She was known as the Peacock of the Air...Beginning of Circus Flashback:The film dissolved to introduce the character known as "the Peacock of the Air" -- Cleopatra (thick-accented Russian-born Olga Baclanova), a beautiful circus-act performer, who was perched atop a high-wire trapeze bar.In the next scene set in an industrial loft, two hovercraft crew-members of Captain Ballard""s (Roy Jones, Jr.Because the film was an ambitious, personal pet project and not one of Ford""s typical westerns, he was unable to find financial backing from the major Hollywood studios, so he turned to Republic Pictures, a smaller studio regarded asthestudio for B-pictures and low-budget westerns.