[This was another of the twelve films that Curtiz ultimately directed with Flynn as star.]Director Michael Curtiz was brought in by studio executives to quickly replace William Keighley when incapacitated by illness, according toVariety, while other sources claimed that Curtiz was chosen to create more engaging, impactful, fast-moving and action-oriented content when Keighley couldn""t meet the tight production schedule.After the opening prologue (the first ten minutes of the film), the film then returns to events that began four years earlier - recalling what led up to the killing of another man who had uncaringly seduced Lolita.Her screams of protest resound hroughout the residence: "Get your hands off me! No! I won""t! Let go of me!"While the two maids carry off Eliza""s clothes, Higgins is asked by the morally-responsible Pickering if he will take advantage of Eliza under the circumstances: "I hope it""s clearly understood hat no advantage is to be taken of her position.I know what you""ve been doing.I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone and why, night after night, you sit at your computer...then they go back and they screw a little bit more and then they go out and they contemplate the moon or something like that.