However, his neck didn""t break and he dangled there slowly strangling to death.She revealed that he knew the location of Hamunaptra and would give the corrupt warden 25% of their findings if he was cut down and released.They are identified by an individualized whistle sound - as each signal is played, they step forward and announce heir names to Maria:16 year-old Liesl (Charmain Carr, twenty-two years old during filming)14 year-old Friedrich (Nicholas Hammond)13 year-old Louisa (Heather Menzies)11 year-old Kurt (Duane Chase)10 year-old Brigitta (Angela Cartwright)almost 7 year-old Marta (Debbie Turner)5 year-old Gretl (Kym Karath)Maria is instructed: "You, Fraulein, will listen carefully.On his own initiative, Patton demonstrated his winning philosophy by beating Montgomery to Messina (the island""s main eastern port) with a lengthy pincer movement strategy (that took down Palermo along the way).The over-budget (about $2 million) MGM film was the studio""s most expensive production sinceBen-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), but it was also the top, highest-grossing film of 1935 (at $4.