The Aunt May Parker character was much younger (portrayed by Marisa Tomei rather than Sally Field), while the Uncle Ben character was non-existent.Claire was monitoring the plan in a parked Mobile Veterinary Unit truck-van with the two boys in the back, as was Vic who watched from the Control Room: "Imagine if we had these puppies in Tora Bora.There was an intensive investigation but his murder case went unsolved.]The other starring role belonged to a modern day, B-movie hack screenwriter/narrator (William Holden, although Montgomery Clift was once considered for the role) who spoke beyond the grave as a phantom narrator.Fred MacMurray was again cast against type as an unlikeable Lieutenant (similar to his earlier role in Wilder""sDouble Indemnity (1944)and later inThe Apartment (1960)).They treated him as a drifter who was stealing from hem.When one of them called the mute giant Michael "7-foot of f--k-tard" and hey beat him with a baseball bat ("a professional ass-whupping"), Michael collapsed to the ground.