After their marriage, Garland and Minnelli also worked together onThe Clock (1945)andThe Pirate (1948).It was a symbolic ""haves & have-nots"" class-struggle story with prototypical characters.The masses of poverty-stricken, exploited residents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were forced to live in the empty, embattled streets.In a flat-voiced voice-over, as he looks out the slats of his venetian-blinded window and lies on his bed, he reveals hat he is desperately "waiting for a mission" and praying o get back into the N.With his authority, Murphy would smoothly help get them in and out of the facility, where computers had given them information on the location of the "good stuff.[Note: It joined two other films hat had become popularized after successful ""midnight"" showings, including the cautionary anti-marijuanaReefer Madness (1936),El Topo (1971), and John Waters"" notoriousPink Flamingos (1972).