At the count of ten, the ruthless Davian pulled the trigger and a gunshot was heard, setting in motion the ignited burning fuse typical of the start of the credits for all theMission: Impossiblefilms.[The piece is Chopin""sNocturne No.6 in G Minor, Op.15, No.3.] In a ranquil scene without dialogue, as the camera pans over each of heir faces, the realization dawns on the pensive men that they have reached a natural conclusion in their lives.One of the film""s posters declared: "We are not alone."The transcendent film followed the odyssey of various characters, including an obsessed, middle-class power lineman named Roy Neary (Dreyfuss, who had earlier appeared in Spielberg""sJaws, but was offered the part only after tough-actor Steve McQueen declined) and a distraught mother named Gillian (Dillon), and her young son Barry (Guffey), as they are inexplicably lured to a volcano-like mountain in Wyoming, to experience a spectacular, extra-terrestrial encounter.] He had an unkempt and unshaven look - wearing a tattered and dirty leather police uniform (with a missing right arm sleeve on his leather-jacket), and sporting a rare sawed-off shotgun.[Kesey wrote the first version of the film""s screenplay.] The film""s title was derived from a familiar, ongue-twisting Mother""s Goose children""s folk song (or nursery rhyme) calledVintery, Mintery, Cutery, Corn.