In the public bar area, a sullen, pain-faced Sergeant (Paul D""Amato) of the Green Berets rudely drinks by himself.He quickly scurries away, jumping into a basket on the edge of a cliff.(The basket is part of an elevator/pulley apparatus affixed to the mountainside, attached to ropes on a winch.In the story set in mid-19th century New York City (1850s), the ""heiress"" was a mid-20s, plain, repressed, shy and virginal Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland).] The film was remade in the mid-fifties asThe Birds and the Bees (1956), with Mitzi Gaynor as the female lead, and David Niven and George Gobel as co-stars.