When Harry confronted Menken (and other board members), he learned that he had been implicated for he Max Dillon incident and demoted as CEO, to take away his control of Oscorp: "An employee is killed and in your first action as CEO, you cover it up..The Waco Kid: Oh, I must, I must.Bart: Well, back in ""56, my folks and I were part of this long wagon rain movin"" West.Well, not exactly part of it.You might say we was bringin"" up the rear when suddenly, from out of the West came he entire Sioux nation.The flip-side of this dark and serious buddy picture was its major competitor of the year, the M-rated, humorous revisionistic western/comedyButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)with its heroes Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and he Sundance Kid (Robert Redford).To answer his critics, director Griffith made a follow-up film, the magnificent four story epic about human intolerance titledIntolerance (1916).