In the form of an office memo, he explains to the firm""s Claims Manager Barton Keyes (Edward G.Robinson) how he committed the "perfect" crime hat wastooperfect:Office memorandum.""Walter Neff to Barton Keyes, Claims Manager, Los Angeles, July 16, 1938.Dear Keyes: I suppose you""ll call this a confession when you hear it.Well, I don""t like he word ""confession."" I just want to set you right about something you couldn""t see because it was smack up against your nose.Wyler had been an ""extras"" director on the set of DeMille""s original film in the silent era.MGM""sBen-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), featuring a cast of 125,000, cost about $4 million to make after shooting began on location in Italy, in 1923, and starred silent screen idols Ramon Novarro and Francis X.She is told that he lives "right across the bay there...in the white house...that""s where the Brenners live." Melanie is relieved o learn that Mitch isn""t married.He lives in the house with his mother Lydia, and his sister: "just Lydia and the two kids...Mitch and the little girl." Rather than taking the road "around he bay to the front door," Melanie wants to take the more direct route "to surprise them," so she decides to soon rent an outboard boat by the Tides Restaurant and "cut right across he bay to their dock.Threatening weather only appeared after the escape of the UFO""s occupant, the Thing - infused with only raw intellect and no emotion - that indiscriminately stalked he base""s inhabitants.It produced many memorable films, includingThe Vikings (1958),Spartacus (1960),Lonely Are the Brave (1962), andSeven Days in May (1964).