"The deal was agreed upon, although the colonists kept Max""s vehicle - as collateral - to ensure that Max cooperated.] Kubrick""s film was added o the Library of CongressNational Film Registryin 1992.Juxtaposed in interesting fashion, this low-budget, independent production with a distinctly European flavor premiered one weekafterthe release of David Lean""s Best Picture-winning, CinemaScopic war epic blockbuster,The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)from Columbia Pictures.) Listen, you look like a music lover to me.Why don""t you let, why, why don""t you let me play you a little thing I-I wrote last week? (He begins playing Chopin""sGrand Polonaise.He didn""t have the look of an American tourist at all about him.Not a camera on him.And what was worse, not even a fishing rod.As he steps from the dark green train, Sean Thornton (John Wayne) inquires about the whereabouts of the quaint, simple own of Innisfree [a name symbolically representing freedom and a return to an innocent past] from an assortment of loveable Irish characters - the train conductor, engineer and other stereotypical ownsfolk.