..the expensive kind" with the unbeatable acknowledged master "Minnesota Fats" (Jackie Gleason), advises Charlie (derisively labeling him as Eddie""s "manager, his friend, his stooge") to forget about winning: "Take your boy and go home.He explains his past crime and his early parole from prison after being convicted of self-defense manslaughter in a drunken, bar-room brawl:I""ve been in the penitentiary for four years.]Melies wrote the whimsical script, acted in the film in the lead role, designed the sets and costumes, directed, photographed, and produced the film! He hired acrobats from the Folies Bergere o play the lunar inhabitants named Selenites, and the scantily dressed assistants (or pages) who launched the cannon were dancers from the Châtelet ballet."When the evil Queen""s throngs (composed of ogres, dwarves, wolves and minotaurs) left to prepare for battle, Lucy and Susan went up to the altar to grieve over Aslan""s corpse.