Altman""s cast included four actresses (Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black and Kathy Bates) who were also directed by Altman in the Broadway production...?" [The snake is a potent sexual symbol, although it has a female name.] After being assured that Emma hadn""t followed them down into the room, she invites him to accompany her to a chaise lounge."Doc" was zapped back seventy years to 1885 to the western town of Hill Valley in the past.Standing there alone, Marty received a 70 year-old Western Union message expressly delivered to him from "Doc" at that point in time.Joe: And supposin"" I don""t?Ryker: You and the other squatters...This is a tense, violent confrontation between the fence-building homesteaders, and the open-range land cow ranchers - an allegory of the settlement and progressive civilization of the West." After another tenant and an elevator full of people catch a glimpse of his naked backside, he throws on a pair of pants and pursues Gerry out onto the street, where he yells to an Irish policeman named O""Donnell (J.