"The duty-obsessed, brutal base commander, Captain Dana Holmes (Philip Ober) speaks to Prewitt about his transfer, learning hat it was because of "a personal matter.] It was complemented by the music of the popular singing duo Simon and Garfunkel from their Grammy-winningThe Sounds of Silencealbum (with songs composed earlier and previously-released except for "Mrs.William Wyler bought the film rights in 1948 and enlisted the Goetzes to aid in the screen adaptation."The next day in the Projection Room, Schumacher meets casually-dressed Bill Herron (Darryl Hickman) (from the West Coast""s Special Programs Department) and the new VP of Programming Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway), where together they watch a screening of a film.