] Mildred""s ruinous but noble downfall occurs as the result of poor choices of men (including her dull, middle-class broker husband Bert (Bruce Bennett)) and her caring for an ungrateful Veda...Oh, why don""t you pick on the gunslingers and the tinhorn gamblers instead of a girl tryin"" to make an honest dollar?McAdam stepped forward to heroically defend her, and she thanked him with a smile, but realized that she had no choice.Ted was also propositioned by a religious zealot for a donation, and allowed the startled man to pull off his leather jacket.In a chilling scene, Dr.Loomis waited upstairs in the Myers house with Sheriff Brackett (Charles Cyphers) for he reappearance of the evil presence, and described his obsessive mission:"I met him fifteen years ago.