He seemed convinced that he had succeeded - until a young girl outside of Maslowski""s asked: "May I have your autograph, Mr." A few of his clever, inventive ideas are ""Petrol-Pep"" and ""Jazz-o-lene."" Impatiently, he watches he wall clock - it is a few minutes before 5 pm.His life""s comings and goings are dictated by the giant time-piece.When the minute hand moves to 5, the automaton workers leap up and scurry away from heir desks for the exit and swarm through office doors.Scotty warned: "We have to stop the processor now, or everything breathing in Yorktown is dead!" Scotty elected to eject the device out of theYorktowninto space, using the override system.The flip-side of this light-hearted buddy picture was its major competitor of the year, the X-rated, darkMidnight Cowboy (1969)with its anti-heroes Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and Joe Buck (Jon Voight).