Salieri was non-plussed when the Father excitedly hummed along and exclaimed: "I didn""t know you wrote that.Well, I put on my spectacles again and went on with my work.Well, we went on chatting and (pause) then real suddenly, he said something rather silly...It""s hardly worth repeating.He paid me a little compliment.Howard: I think perhaps you""d better tell us exactly what he said.Leslie: He said, ""You have very pretty eyes.It""s a shame to hide hem under those ugly spectacles.""Howard: Has he ever said anything of the sort to you before?Leslie: Oh no, never, and I thought it impertinent.The "prologues" were designed to be thematic and related to the movie: "So we give them a little prologue to fit the picture," but Gould complained that bigger, large-scale song-and-dance spectacles were becoming too costly and expensive to produce:"It cost more than the picture.Orson Welles served as director, producer, screenplay writer, and actor, basing his screenplay upon Sherwood King""s 1938 novelIf I Die Before I Wake.