These tremendous visual effects were combined with Eastern world-denying philosophy, metaphysical Zen statements, martial arts movies, Japaneseanime, Greek mythology, cyberpunk chic, Plato""s allegory of the cave, neo-Cartesian plot twists, film noir, Biblical and Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) references.He enjoys his singing, feeling good inside:Say, sometimes a song so big and sweet inside, I...I just can""t get him out, and then I look up at stars, and maybe cry, it feels so good.Gradually, Harvey takes to working in the galley, moves up to deck duty and stands watch.Manuel begins to teach Harvey about life and the ways of the sea - how to cut fish and other fishing echniques, human values and honesty.The Joker was thrown off and held suspended on the side of the building by Batman - but kept alive ("You just couldn""t let me go, could you?...and awoke America""s conscience!"A few other prison films had already been released before this short, 90 minute film: the classicThe Big House (1930)about brutish prison conditions, Howard Hawks""Criminal Code (1931),Ladies of the Big House (1931), and director Rowland Brown""sHell""s Highway (1932)(the first of the hard-hitting chain-gang films - deliberately released by RKO""s producer David Selznick a few months earlier).Eliot was ambushed and died in the bathtub from electrocution (witnessed by the Professor over a video monitor within the Panic Room).