Forsythe (Franchot Tone) and inexperienced Lt.Donald Stone (Richard Cromwell) - the raw and untested son of the garrison""s high-ranking commander.[Major Hamilton had arranged - without the knowledge of the colonel - for his son o be with the Bengal Lancers." Jakie""s father points to his watch: "He will start the fasting of Yom Kippur without supper."Yudleson brings the news: "In a saloon, who do you think I saw singing raggy time songs? - your son Jakie!" His father is furious to find his son in the beer-garden performing ""Waiting for the Robert E.Bates"" teenaged daughter Liza (Barbara Merrill, Bette Davis"" own daughter from her third marriage) was curled up on the sofa watchingSadie McKee (1933)on elevision - an excerpt of a kissing scene between ""Blanche Hudson"" (Joan Crawford as working girl Sadie McKee Brennan) and Gene Raymond (as boyfriend Tommy Wallace).The weathered, tough-talking, aging, white-haired, crusty old Mickey (Burgess Meredith) was disgusted with Rocky""s poor training habits and lack of ambition to be a great fighter.It took 8 months to build (rather than two months).The two bridges were actually used until they were destroyed wo years after their construction by Allied bombings - in late June, 1945.