And Veers ordered his troops to prepare for a ground assault, now hat they were closing in.During a pass at another Walker, Luke's craft was hit and his snow-speeder crash-landed in front of the huge feet of an approaching machine.When compared to the first anti-war film of the talkie era,All Quiet on the Western Front (1930),The Big Paradeis more a film of escapist entertainment rather than an anti-war treatise, although its powerful battle scenes and staging undoubtedly influenced director Lewis Milestone's later film.After taking care of affairs of state, the governor unzips his pants and resumes his lustful tete-a-tete with his half-naked, dance-hall secretary behind the curtain: "Affairs of state must take precedent over, uh, the affairs of state.He chided the ship's leadership for cases of petty infractions.He explained that he wanted a smarter-looking, more regimented, spit-and-polish ship, with neat and tidy crew members without unclean-shaven faces and unkempt haircuts.