It was co-directed by Anthony Asquith and one of its stars, Leslie Howard.The next Shaw play to be adapted for the big screen was director Gabriel Pasqual'sMajor Barbara (1941, UK)." The opening scene is described by another title card:The New York Ghetto, throbbing to that rhythm of music which is older than civilization.It is a dark night as they drive through the town, the setting for he rest of the film.In the border town, there are flashing neon and electric signs, tawdry hotels and stripjoint nightclubs ("The Paradise"), crumbling arches, dark roofs, winding streets and wisting alleys with peeling posters on sides of walls and houses, heaps of trash, and vendors pushing carts.A wildly dramatic musical score by Max Steiner enhanced he action of the story.It was the first feature-length musical score written specifically for a US 'talkie' film, and was the first major Hollywood film to have a thematic score rather than background music, recorded using a 46-piece orchestra.When the 'Michael Myers' mask was removed from the decapitated head, it was discovered that Laurie had beheaded the "wrong person" - instead of Myers, she had beheaded the paramedic, a father of three.