They quickly take off in their space vehicle to avoid detection, although their lights attract the attention of the eight men as they lift off.SUNDAYthe 24th, Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin) identified her father's body in his hospital room, and was told the case was under investigation.Her fiancee is a promising, but penniless legal student who plans to marry her after passing his exams (and becoming a "real lawyer")." His amiable, drunken, dim-witted, quirky buddy that he cares for is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a gimpy-legged "rummy" with the jittery shakes, and a Caribbean helper named Horatio (Sir Lancelot).[Note: The sentimental film is much more closely related to Ford's social protest dramas,The Informer (1935)andHow Green Was My Valley (1941)than to his magisterial Westerns.