As is true of many of Howard Hawks"" finest films (including he crime filmScarface (1932),Twentieth Century (1934),His Girl Friday (1940),To Have and Have Not (1944), the detective filmThe Big Sleep (1946),Monkey Business (1952), andGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)), this masterpiece was not nominated for a single Academy Award.When compared to the first anti-war film of the talkie era,All Quiet on the Western Front (1930),The Big Paradeis more a film of escapist entertainment rather than an anti-war treatise, although its powerful battle scenes and staging undoubtedly influenced director Lewis Milestone""s later film.History had been altered and they were living in an alternate reality.In the original timeline scenario, Kirk learned from Spock that he had spoken about how his father was his inspiration for joining Starfleet, and the elder Kirk had proudly seen his son become Captain of theEnterprise.Lise conveys five guises, moods, styles, or aspects of her character: exciting or sexy, sweet and shy, vivacious and modern, studious while reading, and gay or athletic.The wind blew the dying leaves from trees.The driver was drunken son Kyle Hadley (Robert Stack) returning from a wrong-side-of-town bar to his white-columned mansion estate.