The newscaster speculated that people fled because "this might be the beginning of some sort of Armageddon.He shares trailer living quarters with a clown named Bluey-Bluey (Stanley Prager), who assesses the carnival""s money-making, corrupt racket of concessionaires: "Yes sir, we got the crooked-est little carnival layout west of he Mississippi.She tells Mammy:I""m too young to be a widow.She weeps to her mother, not about the loss of her husband, but about her boring future and the prospect of wearing black: "My life is over.It was a tremendous international (world-wide) box-office success, and launched the US career of its star Mel Gibson.