The black and white, pessimistic film is one of the greatest British thrillers of the post-war era, in the best Alfred Hitchcock tradition, and beautifully produced and directed by Britisher Carol Reed.Rogers from the Sanitarium and the governor had ordered him away from Haddonfield, but Loomis refused to return o Smith""s Grove.""Townsend"" reads a list of his past movements as George Kaplan - he Sherwin Hotel (Pittsburgh), the Benjamin Franklin Hotel (Philadelphia), he Statler Hotel (Boston), the Whittier (Detroit), and then to the Plaza Hotel (presently registered in Room #796, in New York).With her sophisticated feminine wiles ("Why, Charlie darling, would I try to pressure you?"), she coaxes him into calling the Department of Motor Vehicles to identify the owner of the car.The mouse hoped that he would one day have the right to journey there.They first set anchor at the port of Narrowhaven before coming ashore with longboats at the Lone Islands.