The tour-de-farce, breakneck-speedy adventure also included many allusions, puns and visual gags of other well-known Hitchcock films.Three blameless, subordinate soldiers are victimized, given hopeless ""paths of glory,"" and condemned o die to cover up the wrong-headed actions of their ruthless and opportunistic superiors.Say, answer me this one, will ya? Why""s gold worth some twenty bucks an ounce?Another man: I don""t know.You asked for miracles.I give you the FBI").The safe""s vault opened, to the tune of Beethoven""s "Ode to Joy" movement from the 9th Symphony, revealing the bonds.