Sydney Greenstreet in his talkie film debut), and Best Adapted Screenplay (by the director - John Huston).That is your destiny." Undeterred, he told her: "I make my own destiny." He kissed her and they were intimate together that night, before she left to secretly return to Gomorrah, with the goal of saving their lives.Esther and John are finally introduced.The youthful dancing party begins in the cramped confines of the Smith parlor.Young Lon participates in the music making - he and Esther sing and the group dances to a lively hoe-down called "Skip to My Lou" - a traditional production number.Appearing in the late 1970s, it was a soulful, beguiling, magical, and benevolent look at ""close encounters.