).Overwhelmed FBI Deputy Director Miguel Bowman (Cliff Curtis) surmised: "We're under attack." Gabriel also sabotaged homeland security with a simulated anthrax scare in government buildings, provoking evacuations of all bureaucratic offices and the dispatching of Haz-Mat forces.She was turned into a hulking, fright-wigged robotic cyborg zombie that used power rays on both Lorelei and Ross to subdue and immobilize them.) after a two year absence and slumping decline.[Note: The role was first considered by Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and Ann Sheridan.]Crawford won the film's sole Academy Award Oscar (it was also her sole Academy Award win out of three career nominations) as Best Actress for her title role.He hypothesized that her psychokinetic ability was "a projection of the suppressed guilt feelings" that she had regarding her father's death.Screenwriter Harry Behn based his script on a story by author Laurence Stallings, who based his writing on his own gritty wartime experiences as a Marine serving in N.