degree  stageline in this film. That is, characters are photographed from  both sides of the stageline, making them appear to be (for instance)  looking in the same direction, when they are supposed to be looking  in opposite directions. Watch the Davey Gordon and Rapallo ax fight  at the denouement for an example. This film and  _Fear and Desire (1953)_ (qv) are the only two Kubrick films not  based upon novels or previously published works.