Director Mann brought some of the characteristics of his previous film-noirs to this modernized western, borrowed from his own gritty, low-budget classics such asT-Men (1947)andRaw Deal (1948).Ritter was dismayed but vowed it was part of the internal drug war -- "rivalry that ended in the blast of a car bomb.In the Arab city of Cordova, here were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village.When there was a struggle for a gun, a bullet struck the diner""s electrical power line, causing the emergency lights to come on."He""s of no use here in Cairo.He might be in Arabia.He knows his stuff." Murray contemptuously notes the "insubordinate," unmanly manner of Lawrence""s nature - a subtle hint of his fabled homosexuality.