"In his hometown of Smallville, Kansas, Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) visited the old, uninhabited wooden farm house where he had grown up - now plastered with a FOR SALE/LEASE sign.This film foreshadowed other great, more complex westerns hat Ford would later direct -The Searchers (1956)andThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).She woke with a heightened sense of perception and quick reflexes, prowled through the city""s streets and found that she could leap great distances like a cat.The resurrected Monster kills the silly farm wife by heaving her down into the mill (again watched by the owl), and stalks off into he countryside.