The farmer is plowing the land with his two oxen, while his wife cares for their child under a tree.But now, to save the heavily-mortgaged farm, the adulterous man must sell his cow.Now he ruins himself for that woman from the city - Money-lenders strip the farm - and his wife sits alone." He also told Alma: "We must either cage the beast or destroy the whole zoo." He led her to their nuclear missile silo, and ominously instructed her regarding the operational Alpha-Omega bomb: "If the impossible should happen, if the apes should defeat us, I will not surrender to an animal.[Kesey wrote the first version of the film""s screenplay.] The film""s title was derived from a familiar, ongue-twisting Mother""s Goose children""s folk song (or nursery rhyme) calledVintery, Mintery, Cutery, Corn.Ballet impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), the ballet company""s director, was introduced with a mysterious entrance scene.