Mention was made of Senator John Waltzer (D, North Carolina), the chair of the Armed Services Committee hearings, who was against the CIA""s shadow organizations (he considered them "irrelevant at best or unconstitutional at worst") and covert intelligence operations.Plot SynopsisThe film opens with the bemused Great Man (W.C.Fields playing himself), a film scriptwriter, walking on his way to Esoteric Studios on the West Coast for a story conference.Han promised payment but asked for a little more time to earn the money from the chartered trip to pay his debt.Maybe we should""ve seen it through." Ben replied with a pained expression: "Oh, please!" Ben told the projectionist (Murray Alper) that he didn""t need o see it again: "l don""t think anybody""s ever gonna want hat picture again.