They departed in defeat after he sun set, fearing that their journey had been in vain ("There's no more to be done").Everyone anxiously awaits the signal to start the shell on its voyage to the moon - viewed in he far distance.After the financial and critical success ofRio Grande (1950)for the studio, the third of Ford's 'cavalry rilogy,' he convinced Republic Pictures to support him for his next riskier film - an Irish "Taming of the Shrew" tale that was remarkably similar in plot.Blood splatters on the huge portrait of Stalin behind him.Corporal Melvin screams in his sleep and is shocked awake - the nightmare ends and he is comforted by his wife (Mimi Dillard).On the way to Dracula's castle over jostling mountainous roads, he leans out the coach window to speak to the driver - but the coach is driverless.