The reactionary film is considered Hollywood""s best 50""s film of rebellious and restless youth (and sex, drugs, and rock ""n"" roll) that spawned many other lesser teen exploitation films in its wake.The robot colossus destroyed (or disintegrated) many of the weapons present (plus one tank and artillery weapons) with the mysterious laser beam concealed by his facial shield, without injuring a single soldier.Hiding beneath her own cool demeanor are many neurotic, sexually-repressed feelings.By controlling the patients, she zealously serves her own ego needs rather than the therapeutic needs of the patients.Luchino Visconti""sOssessione (1943, It.)was an unauthorized version of Cain""s work - the first of he three.Another of Cain""s 1941 novels was also made into a popular film noir with Joan Crawford -Mildred Pierce (1945).Cora: The wedding ring.It was the first thing he mentioned.Frank: And you liked it.A certain reason.Cora: You don""t know the half of it.Frank, I-I hate to say this but, I wasn""t ever, ever homely.So..Frank: You must have had to fight off a lot of guys.Cora: A lot of guys? All the guys.I don""t especially like the way I look sometimes.But I never met a man since I was fourteen that didn""t want to give me an argument about it.Frank: Sure.And by the time Nick came along, well you were ready o marry anybody that owned a gold watch.Cora: It seemed the best thing to do, from my angle.And as for him, I told him, I told him I didn""t love him.Frank: He said that would come in time.Cora: Yeah.Frank: But it didn""t.Cora: But I meant to stick by him, and that""s why...Frank: That""s why you married him and retired.The undefeated champ.Cora: Not one hundred percent undefeated.Not now.Breathlessly, the voluptuous Cora succumbs to Frank""s promise of adventure to escape her life of boredom and defeat, and her marriage of convenience.