..Why does he put his toothbrush in my glass?" Carol also noticed a crack in the ceiling: "We must get this crack mended.But according to other US and Soviet government reports, nothing happened of "what you are about to see...you don""t have to bow down to nobody")Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier), a strong black convict, cooly defiant, incarcerated for assault and battery - for almost beating a white man to death when a gun was pulled on him; in the ruck, he was singing the blues classic spiritual "Long Gone"; once married with a 5 year-old child when he left home, he was often angered that he was always told to "Be nice"When Jackson ordered the "nigger" to shut up, Cullen lashed back: "You call me nigger again, Joker, and I""m gonna kill ya!" Just then, their truck was sideswiped and crashed over a guard rail barrier.the aftermath of the war and its physical and psychological effects upon the three male participants in the war and those left at home (wives, families, and friends).