J.- and suck in the sweet smell of success!The film""s central actor, Burt Lancaster, also served (with his press agent Harold Hecht) as the head of the film""s production company (with hits includingThe Flame and the Arrow (1950),Apache (1954),Vera Cruz (1954), Best Picture winnerMarty (1955), andTrapeze (1956)).They hot-wired one of the mall""s late-model exhibit vehicles to drive through the mall, scaring off the zombies with ignited propane tanks.The villains of the four stories are mill owner Jenkins and his intolerant social reformers, the hypocritical Pharisees - opponents of Christ, the evil regime of the cunning Queen Catherine, and the treacherous High Priest of Babylon.The weathered, tough-talking, aging, white-haired, crusty old Mickey (Burgess Meredith) was disgusted with Rocky""s poor training habits and lack of ambition to be a great fighter.All of the characters were now dead except for Ash and Annie, who began to cooperate together to defeat the evil forces.