Subjectively, the presentation of the approaching metropolis [in a specially-constructed mile-long track] is designed o be as spectacular or spacious as it would appear to rustic, wide-eyed peasants seeing it for the first time, or after a long period of anticipation.The sequel, when viewed with the original film, provides the viewer with a 267-minute film noir epic.He turns and fires toward he audience, causing a bloody-red color to wash over the screen.To a calypso beat, colorful silhouettes of erotic dancing girls undulate, o be replaced by the black silhouettes of three blind men moving in single file, tapping ahead of them with walking canes.Anticipating personal assassinations, he thwarted such efforts and conquered much of the land.Realizing that his ambitions outweighed his life-span, he sought immortality through the supernatural powers of a sorceress/witch:Long ago, a mythic battle between good and evil played out in ancient China.Kipfer (Barbara Morrison).[In the novel, he New Congress Club was the New Congress Hotel, a house of prostitution, where enlisted men hang out.