The cinematic "men""s film" (with first-time screenwriter Robert Bolt""s screenplay) is a superb character study of a compelling cult hero, who exhibits homo-erotic tendences in his relationship with Arab blood brother Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), a dark personal nature, and an obsession with Arabia itself.Supposedly, the inhabitants of the destination were greater beings (or "Engineers") who created Earth and humankind, and then changed their minds and wanted to destroy humanity.It""s no biggy." Glen hinted hat when he had nightmares, he would tell himself that it was a bad dream and then he would wake right up.Clyde (Harry Lewis), now a leather-jacketed town sheriff and married man with one son, has followed in his father""s footsteps.When the enormous vase that he was hiding in cracked open, he extended the magic rope upwards and climbed into he open window of the mosque, where he observed religious believers in prayer, led by the Imam:O true believers, gathered in this sacred mosque, earn thy happiness in the name of the true God.