[The leak about an epidemic was deliberately released to cover up the real reason.] Concealing and evading the reason for his top-secret mission, Dr.Floyd deliberately declines o answer: "I'm really not at liberty to discuss this." He excuses himself to continue on his journey.With the reprise ofThe Blue Danube, Dr.Floyd has boarded another Pan Am spaceship (a lunar landing craft), the sphericalAries, as its only passenger to soar toward the Clavius base on the moon.Wayne (and Walter Brennan as his sidekick) would go on to make another western with Hawks a decade later -Rio Bravo (1959).] The black silhouette of a frontier woman moves from the darkness, with a forward-tracking camera, through the door to the brightly sunlit wilderness outside hrough which Monument Valley is seen.Getz was released from the hospital for the gunshot wound, and he ranted to his 'partners' about his awful experience, of almost having his appendix removed and a rectal exam: "They f--k you in the hospital! First, they drug you.Finally, he trails her to an old hotel on Eddy Street, the McKittrick Hotel, where she stands in a second-floor window facing the front.