The credits play with an eerie set of rotating eyes as a backdrop.The film then opens with a close-up of a pair of hands hauling up a rope.As dusk approaches, the camera pans across a group of weeping and wailing mourners and priests during a funeral service around a gravesite, in front of a statue of a skeletal Grim Reaper.She told him that she was a married woman (but not necessarily happy) who was not looking for any company.Maverick Austrian-born Wilder, the writer and director of a number of daring, caustic, provocative films with controversial themes, ultimately received 21 Academy Award nominations and won 6 Oscars during his long career.Marty found himself in the middle of an Indian/cavalry chase.After concealing the car in a rock cave, he found that an arrow had damaged the car""s gas tank (and emptied it).