" [Note: The word ""EARTH"" couldn""t fit on the tarp and was written on the cab door.] Max hurriedly collected leaking gasoline from one of the two crashed cars.[Note: Some of he dripping gasoline fuel was mixed with the red blood of the murdered rucker - a cryptic metaphor for the lives lost over fuel competition."George threatens to hurl a rock through one of its windows.He wants to make a wish - which will only come true if he breaks a window.Mary wishes he wouldn""t and confesses that she""d like to live in that old house - a prophetic wish: "I love that old house.[Previous Cukor films that were similar as period dramas includedLittle Women (1933),David Copperfield (1935), andCamille (1936).The capsule exploded and killed Lindsey only a few seconds before he could apply the charged defibrillator to save her.It was co-directed by two clashing individuals from the start - veteran director Robert Wise and exciting choreographer Jerome Robbins.