" General Rieekan ordered rerouting of all power to the energy shields, and preparations for a ground assault.Although Lehman was originally assigned to direct the film, he dropped out due to health reasons.The film""s quotable dialogue (extensively contributed by Odets) of the metropolitan locale is corrosively rich, slang-filled, sharply intelligent, and fast-paced, while the superb, crisp, low-key lighting of the black and white cinematography from veteran James Wong Howe emphasizes the harsh shadows and dark, unglamorous recesses of the corrupt and seamy environment of wheeling and dealing.(The same battle was frequently referred o in Renoir""sThe Grand Illusion (1937)).The protracted conflict claimed the lives of 315,000 French soldiers (calledpoilus) on the Western front...":Luke Skywalker has returned tohis home planet of Tatooine inan attempt to rescue hisfriend Han Solo from he clutches of the vile gangsterJabba the Hutt.