Another town resident, well-dressed but humorless local businessman Mr.Freddy Smalley (John Schuck) declined an invitation o play with the "professionals." A mistaken, mythologizing rumor was started by Sheehan who interrupted the game and asked if McCabe was the reknowned and notorious gunman 'Pudgy' McCabe with a reputation ("big rep") for killing Bill Roundtree.English actor John Williams and Anthony Dawson reprised their Broadway roles for the film.The film was the last Hitchcock movie to be derived from a stage play, and it acquired much of its tension and tautness from being shot almost entirely in a limited and circumscribed area except for a few cutaways (his latest similar works wereLifeboat (1944)andRope (1948)).Recognizing that the preacher is not a man of God, Harper wants to know what strange religion the preacher professes, and is old:Harper: What religion do you profess, Preacher?Powell: The religion the Almighty and me worked out betwixt us.The next day, the corridor of the asylum was filled with obviously mad and crazy patients wearing smocks, as the institution's priest-confessor and chaplain Father Vogler (Richard Frank) entered, wearing a black cape over his clerical garb.