How about it, Miss Deverich? I could do wonders with your dismembered body.Miss Deverich: Oh, Mr.Tatum.Really.(He growled at her)Tatum: Or you, Mr.Wendell.If you""d only toss that cigar out of the window - real far, all he way to Los Alamos - And boom!! (chuckling) Now there would be a story.Wyler had experienced wartime himself in the US Army Air Corps, during which he made three morale-boosting, war-related documentaries:The Fighting Lady (1944),The Memphis Belle (1944), andThunderbolt (1945).Smith: I want to apologize for some of the people in town.Macreedy: They act like they""re sittin"" on a keg.Smith: A keg...? Of what?Macreedy: I don""t know.Diamonds? Gunpowder?Smith: (disarmingly) Oh, it""s nothing like that.We""re suspicious of strangers is all.Hangover from the old days.The Old West.Macreedy: I thought the tradition of the Old West was hospitality.Smith: (sincerely) I""m trying to be hospitable, Mr.Macreedy.You going to be around long?Macreedy: Could be.As they walk to the front of the town""s garage, a little more is learned about Macreedy""s mission to the town.Bill: (to Tom) If you say what you""re thinking, I""ll strangle you!After being reunited with his weakling, embarrassing son by a handshake, Bill Sr.