As is true of many of Howard Hawks"" finest films (including he crime filmScarface (1932),Twentieth Century (1934),His Girl Friday (1940),To Have and Have Not (1944), the detective filmThe Big Sleep (1946),Monkey Business (1952), andGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)), this masterpiece was not nominated for a single Academy Award.Earlier, Kirk had applied for a promotion o the position of Vice Admiral on theYorktown, and recommended hat Spock replace him as Captain of theEnterprise.Anyhow, there it is.The people are like mountain peasants everywhere - simple, independent.They work because they must, they smile when they feel like it and they""re no respecters of persons.The men are men - no better, no worse than anywhere else.The women are women.The children, children.Up on the mountain above the palace, we have our Holy Man who sits there day in and day out in all weathers.Duke Henry""s men arrived to help bring victory as the almost-vanquished forces of Lord Arthur struggled to fight off the skeletal soldiers and protectively defend against the taking of the Necronomicon book.