The film was a well-meaning, but often misguided effort that had confusing and mixed messages about male superiority, the exploitation of Mexican workers, and racial equality (for both blacks in the Maryland sequences, and Hispanics in the Texas sequences).I think too much of you to help you do something you""re gonna regret.Julie: I know exactly what I""m doin"".Buck: Well, most likely you do but you""re wrong.That dress would cause no end of trouble.Folks would keenly resent you comin"" to he ball in it.Julie: Well, let ""em.They""re just petty and narrow-minded.Buck: No, ma""am.It""s just they got rules and they go by ""em, same as you and I.Julie: And do you prefer to go by your rules?Buck: I always have, Miss Julie.Julie: Then I""m sorry I troubled you.When Preston arrives at the mansion, he (and Aunt Belle and the General) are stunned to see her, inappropriately dressed in a bare-shouldered, flaming red dress.Previous films had only made fun of drunks and lushes (e.g.,The Thin Manseries, or W.C.Fields"" films).Its release was threatened when the alcohol industry offered to purchase the film""s negative and remove it from circulation, but then praised and supported the film following its popular release (and critical success).He angrily asked about the CIA""s efforts to get him: "Why are you trying to frame me?" She also admitted that Abbott ran Treadstone and "Conklin reported to him," and that the Berlin sting buy had "something to do with a Russian politician [Neski].