Policeman Tom Duncan has put a bullet through his head with the revolver.At 3:00 a.m.(displayed on a giant grandfather clock), his "widow" Bertha Duncan (Jeanette Nolan) descends a staircase and discovers his body." She accepted his request for a date to the school's annual Homecoming Dance.On the evening of the dance, after prepping with Aunt May, he was driven to Liz's home to pick her up, where her father answered the doorbell - it was Adrian Toomes! After her mother Doris (Garcelle Beauvais) took some photographs of the couple - with Peter exhibiting extreme nervousness, they were chauffeured to the dance by her father.The students learn that war is not noble - it is no more than cruel death and destruction.Katczkinsky explains how foolish it was for one of the recruits to go and retrieve his friend - the corpse of the dead man.The film actually brought together director Elia Kazan, scriptwriter Tennessee Williams, and actor Karl Malden from his previous filmA Streetcar Named Desire (1951).You can't win these people over no matter what you do.They're just not gonna accept you." Out on the street, Black Bart is greeted by an old townswoman: "Up yours, nigger." The Waco Kid comforts and reassures the racially-slurred sheriff after his efforts to be accepted have failed:What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home.