This was famed Pixar director Brad Bird""s live-action directorial debut film.It was the first film in the series to be released in IMAX.The film""s running gag was that many of IMF""s high-tech gadgets didn""t work as expected: the mission message delivered in a decrepit Russian phone booth that didn""t self-destruct, unreliable glass-scaling suction gloves, the facial latex mask-making machine, etc.An Army field hospital incident nearly damaged Patton""s entire career (he also missed out on D-Day in mid-1944 after being reprimanded and losing his command).She pours drinks, and then a bumbling, passive Ben is left helpless, flustered, and confused in the face of a sexual seduction by the neurotic, cynical and alcoholic Mrs....Slop, slop, slop!" He hurled his metal plate of ""slop"" and a food-fight brawl commenced.During the chaos, Vince struck a few of the guards who were ordering him back to his cell.As punishment, he suffered a bare-backed whipping (with five lashes - on-screen) by one of the guards (Bill Hickman).Robinson) and his friend Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) appear in a seamy, run-down diner.After Rico turns the hands on the diner clock back twenty minutes to give them an alibi, Joe compliments his smart nature: "Got to hand it to ya, Rico.