In Act I, "Satan's Waitin'", Yosemite Sam is reading a newspaper on a billboard with the headline: "Local Widow Inherits $50 Million Dollars." However, the text of the article describes the making of the movie "RETREAT? HELL!" (1952). Here is what it says: Camp Pendleton October 12, 1951 "Yes, it was a bit tough." That was the general, if somewhat conservative, opinion of those who had a hand in the messy business of "snowing in" the little curved valley here at camp Pendleton for "RETREAT? HELL!" When the last tubful of the salt and lime mix had been sprayed onto the hillside. We could finally stand back and view the effect created by our many days of hard labor, and it's doubtful if there was one among us who regretted those seemingly endless days of hauling, mixing and spraying, and the resulting bloodshot eyes, aching backs and lime-filled pores. Thanks be for ol' "Doc" Stufflebeam and his little black bag during those [Text continues below screen]... ... was a little more than a narrow, bumpy trail. In a few days our "cat" drivers, Gil Richardson and Walt Tucker, had leveled off a five-acre area for our base camp and over 3 miles of wide, well-graded roads. From then on the water trucks manned by Ray Dunlap and Bill Miller and the dump trucks by Paul Edgerly and Bill Dawson made good use of them hauling salt, lime and gypsum to the "snowbirds." As work progressed, trucks of all sizes and descriptions arrived by twos and threes bringing the material for the little Korean hut and huge artificial rock to be built on the breakwater on the beach at Camp Del Mar across the highway. From as far away is San Francisco came salt, lime and "gyp." [Text continues below screen.]
