West saw an oaf blundering into the minefield of Communist subversion. His romantic dilemma with Natsumi leaves him clumsy and blundering. Eben's personality is sarcastic and snarky, usually playing the straight cat to Snooch's blundering buffoonery. Donald Tovey described it as "blundering" and "inept". Due to Buckland's blundering, a firefight begins accidentally. He was not afraid of failure, saying, "The road to success is through constant blundering". Throughout, Walter's blundering damages his relationships, his reputation and soon threatens his life. This Bloody Blundering Business is a half-hour documentary film released in 1971. The situation was very fluid, with units blundering into each other in a heavy snowfall. Kauto Star looked beaten when blundering at the second last.