As before, Williams"" work on this film was directed by Elia Kazan, a favorite director of several of his plays on Broadway as well.During one of their carefree days, she challenges Heathcliff: "I""ll race you to the barn.The one that loses has to be the other""s slave." When Heathcliff wins the race, Hindley appears in the yard, showing his immediate antipathy and loathing for the intruder by resenting and ormenting him, and calling him a "gypsy beggar.And many later men-in-chains films have paid homage o this one by borrowing various plot elements in different ways:Blackmail (1939)with Edward G.Mathayus watched as his lethally-wounded brother Jessup""s throat was slit by Memnon.The Sorceress, claiming she had a vision ("To ignore this would bring great misfortune.The gods show him favor on this night"), protested Mathayus"" proposed murder, and unexpectedly pleaded that his life be spared.