..Sex, blood type, whether or not the ear came off a dead person.Also, it looks like the ear was cut off with scissors.The film cuts to the next scene - a sharp pair of scissors cuts a "POLICE LINE - DO NOT CROSS" yellow tape, as officers rope off the wooded area and search for more clues.She dove inside the coffin, and reached her arm out to her son to rescue him.As she pulled Dylan out, her dead husband""s hands grasped her face and begged: "Stay with me, Heather." Rocky rebuked his son and told him how o win and succeed in life, and not be cowardly: "The world ain""t all sunshine and rainbows.[The real blacks in the film only played in minor roles.]Its climactic finale, the suppression of the black hreat to white society by the glorious Ku Klux Klan, helped to assuage some of America""s sexual fears about the rise of defiant, strong (and sexual) black men and the repeal of laws forbidding intermarriage.The film""s success led to a popular Lux Radio Theatre show in 1948, the best-loved early CBS-TV sitcom titledMama(from 1949-1957) with Peggy Wood as Mama, the "ITV Play of the Week" in 1961, and a Broadway musical stage show in 1979.