O""Flynn admitted that he had been sending over innocent people to the island specifically to anger the Muldoons, who it appeared had killed the "strangers" but let zombies live (Tomboy noticed: "These people didn""t get chewed on by dead-heads...tires or saccharin" but something else.[Note: The artistic influences of his Western pulp novels, making him ""the lone rider"" of his own stories, convince Holly, mistakenly, that Harry was a victim of Calloway - a ""sheriff"" authority figure.BackgroundThe Deer Hunter(1978) is storywriter/producer/director Michael Cimino""s epic about war and friendship - and only his second film (followingThunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974))." She complained how the kids at Pinehurst didn""t respect property, how the two "perverts" had been on her land - and she shouted the accusation: "they""re all crazy!" She directly threatened the kids: "You mark my words.