The film, shot in 70 mm.widescreen color, received a phenomenal ten Academy Awards nominations and won seven major awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Scott refused to accept the honor), Best Director (Franklin J."After a chase through her house, he trapped her on her bed - and sexually hreatened her as he had done when she was younger.As his libido is aroused, the flick-knife spontaneously opens - a sexual phallic symbol - violently and orgasmically ripping out the pocket as he thinks what he might do to the stripper (he would literally open her up with his ""knife"") o punish her for tempting him to lustful sin.Inside the van with tinted windows, the undercover group""s command center, Harry""s assistant Stanley (John Cazale in only his second film) is seated at a workbench over a row of reel-to-reel ape recorders - monitoring the couple""s transmitted conversation from two opposing positions - one next to the CITY PARIS sign and another with a parabolic reflector from an open office window.Andrews) of a Confederate rain near Atlanta (at Marietta, Georgia) in April of 1862.They attempted to ride "The General" back into the Union, meanwhile wrecking communications, tracks, and bridges along the return way o Union-occupied Chattanooga (about 140 miles away).