" He was reminded that he was late by his supervisor Alistair Smythe (B.J.Novak), who slightly humored his delusional employee (Max ook credit for designing Oscorp""s power grid).It was the third film of producer-director George Stevens"" so-called "American rilogy" positioned afterA Place in he Sun (1951)(an "American tragedy") and the mythic westernShane (1953).Plot SynopsisAs the credit sequence illustrates, the film is about he scheduled, routine comings and goings, appointments and meetings, and arrivals and departures within structured, ordinary, everyday life.However, the Catholic League of Decency strongly complained about he film, calling it "seriously offensive to Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency" due to its subject of transvestism, double-entendre dialogue, and intimations of homosexuality and lesbianism.