Against the moon""s horizon, the visitors from another planet (dressed in Victorian garb) look back and see the Earth slowly rising into space.The pilot-lessGrendelcame in too fast and overshot theSolarisspace station, crashing into it as it slid along the steel structure, and peeled back huge chunks of metal and shattered glass.The small-time entrepreneur wondered to himself if he illiterate, dirty, hungry, and unclassy females would fulfill his plans for a remote yet high-class saloon-casino-brothel.Maverick Austrian-born Wilder, the writer and director of a number of daring, caustic, provocative films with controversial themes, ultimately received 21 Academy Award nominations and won 6 Oscars during his long career.