This comedy was a transition film for the director since it was the earliest example of a Woody Allen film with a fairly distinct storyline - with a beginning, middle, and ending.There are also glass cases of other petrified animals around the perimeter, and framed fish hanging on the walls.And the spectacle of the fireman (replaced by a dummy with a jump cut in scene four) being thrown off the moving rain was a first in screen history.(This film quote, spoken by Groucho, was especially detested: "And remember while you""re out there risking life and limb through shot and shell, we""ll be in here thinking what a sucker you are.A large HK-Aerial "Bogey" tracked the Command submarine, located off the Bay Area coast - it put a weapon lock on it, and released a depth charge to destroy it.