Nearing the Pentagon, Ryan""s contacts at the CIA identified Dressler as a billionaire Austrian manufacturer and a Neo-Nazi sympathizer."Worried about the new world that he was awakened to, Miles asked about the current government: "What kind of government you guys got here? This is worse than California." The reverse of the word, woodpecker, referred o a literally red-headed and red-necked bird.Its second meaning was sexual - the foreskin of a penis (or prepuce) - literally the ""peckerhead."" Another related, similarly-defined term in the film was "Whicker bill."]In the plot, tenant sharecropping farmer""s high-school aged son Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess) was pressured to not forget his place in life and to pick cotton in the fields for rich Southern cotton plantation land-owner Lane Norwood (Berton Churchill).The remainder of the film""s narrative is set in Paris.In the next scene, a clever transitionary scene from Venice to Paris, a Morse-Code like radio-transmitted signal is beamed from the top of a technology-transformed Eiffel Tower (viewed at night) - the signals shoot out like bolts of lightning (similar to the RKO Pictures opening trademark).