The entire town needs o be saved from Mongo""s wrath, and with a quick about-face, a representative from the town asks for the black sheriff""s assistance...She, uh, she ain""t honest.Dr.Spivey: Aw now, look.Miss Ratched""s one of the finest nurses we""ve got in this institution.McMurphy: Ha! Well I don""t wanna break up the meeting or nothin"", but she""s somethin"" of a c--t, ain""t she, Doc?Dr.Brighton: Oh.What are you to do for the Arab Bureau?Lawrence: It""s rather vague sir.I""m to ""appreciate"" the situation.Brighton: Well, that won""t be difficult.The situation""s bloody awful.The morale, if anybody had any, which I doubt, the Turks knocked out of them in front of Medina with howitzers.Cinematographer Ernest Lazlo had worked on another famous, earlier film noir,D.O.A.(1950), which prepared him for this film.In both, he used German expressionistic lighting and shadows, reminiscient ofThe Cabinet of Dr.Caligari (1920).This independent film features a cheap and sleazy, contemptible, fascistic private investigator/vigilante named Mike Hammer whose trademarks are brutish violence, the end-justifies-the-means philosophy and speed...not for the faint-hearted." Each school would select a single student to represent them, and "eternal glory" awaited the student who won the tournament, by surviving three "extremely dangerous" tasks.