He calls his home (many thousands of miles away) on a Bell Picturephone and speaks to his daughter Squirt (director Kubrick""s daughter Vivian).Producer/director Aldrich""s brutal, fast action, paranoid film with a series of disconnected scenes, was based upon pulp fiction writer Mickey Spillane""s 1952 sensationalist detective best-seller of the same name (the seventh in his series of eleven books).When the lights went out, Rob descended into the basement to check, while Gordon ran upstairs, whimpered a few times, and then inexplicably jumped out the second-story window(to his death?)...She""s a very stubborn woman."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)From a production budget of approximately $90 million, the film""s box-office was $100 million (domestic) and $361 million (worldwide).