It is a loose reference to Monty Python's "Holy Grail". When the peasents are talking about the heirarcy in England. About the time in the movie of "Help, Help, I'm being repressed!"

Another of the great voices stilled. But think how it must sound upstairs. Price, Lorre, Karloff, and now Lee. Think the Angels are scared shitless now.

Go watch the show "Other Space" on Yahoo. Joel is back in space on another screwed up ship. He has a robot friend that sounds very familiar. Check it out and see what you think.

I think this sums up the movie just right. "...but it smells like feet,and that is as close as we can get..."

Is it just me or do I smell kitchen magnets?

Richard Kiel is just great in this.Around the same time this was made,he appeared in my favorite Twilight Zone episode"To Serve Man".

Ingmar Bergman's jokes never work in translation.You all should know that by now.But you just can't beat that cinematography.

Have you ever noticed that there is no shortage of tin foil on a planet at the edge of destruction?