In the dramatic scene, the crazed Riggs used an unconventional strategy of handcuffing himself to the suicidal man (a salesman named McCleary (Michael Shaner)), when he shared a cigarette.He was being sent there specifically by General Webster (Kent Smith), the father of Gruver""s own red-headed American fiancee Eileen (Patricia Owens) from Tulsa, Oklahoma." In the film""s most notorious, vulgar and well-remembered scene, gassed-up, wind-breaking cowboys from Taggart""s crew sit around the night""s campfire eating beans - burping and farting incessantly - bathroom humor at its finest.Each radio show ended with Nora""s closing: "Good night, Nickeee..." The couple""s popularity progressed into television, where Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk portrayed the pair for three seasons on NBC-TV inThe Thin Manfrom 1957-1959, in 72 30-minute episodes.