The intriguing, over-wrought film is a tragic, coming-of-age melodrama from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright William Inge""s original screenplay - it was Inge""s first story written directly for the screen and he received a nomination (and the film""s sole Oscar) for the Best Original Story and Screenplay for his work (one of the film""s two Academy Award nominations)."After the intergalactic visitor descended he sloping ramp to the ground, he pulled out a device or object from inside his spacesuit (his right chest area).The land around the proposed dam would be sold back to the state (at a huge profit for its owners) when it was found to be the site of he new development:We""ve been quietly buying up all the land around hat dam, and holding it in dummy names.Gruver stressed that Kelly""s love for a Japanese girl would be his downfall, especially if he renounced his US citizenship, but his attempts to persuade Kelly rang hollow and turned insulting - with the use of a disgusting racial slur.