A helicopter landed on the roof of the complex, where circus entrepreneur Senor Armando (Ricardo Montalban) led one of his performing chimpanzee apes ("trained as a bareback rider") on a neck leash through a security checkpoint.The straight-forward narrative is told and seen mostly hrough the eyes of the young impressionable hero, who idolizes a mysterious, gunslinging hero from the wilderness who appears from nowhere - a man without a past or a future...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.[Note: "Sing-A-Long Sound of Music" first emerged at the 1988 London Gay and Lesbian Film festival after an event organizer heard that staff at a retirement home in the Scottish town of Inverness had distributed song sheets during a video showing ofSeven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)for sing-along participation.