In an executive office, Hackett confronts Beale on a couch: "You""re off the air as of now." The network executives view how Beale""s performance was the opening story on other television shows.Many years later, the film became a Broadway adaptation - thesecondlongest running American musical in Broadway history behindA Chorus Line...I just don""t think he""d be attracted to somebody like you." However, Lacy thought he was "cute," and flattered herself: "All men like me.I""m very, very rich." In the news offices, the group listened to the President""s address on television, with Clark fearing it wouldn""t be "good news," although Warfield differed: "We could double our circulation with a good international crisis.However, except for he opening scene shot in Florida, the entire film was produced on a Warner Bros.set.The footage of the hurricane was taken from stock footage from the Warner Bros.melodramaNight Unto Night (1949)starring Ronald Reagan.Edward G.Robinson (in a trademark, resurrected role and in his last major appearance as an iconic mobster) starred in his John Huston crime-drama as Prohibition-era mobster Johnny Rocco -- a character modeled on real-life gangsters Charles ""Lucky"" Luciano and Al Capone.Weird fellow classmate Aron (Haig Sutherland) warned them not to participate:"That""s the house where it all started.