Producer John Carpenter conceived of this film as the first in an anthology of stand-alone Halloween season-related horror films, although the plan failed.The remarkable film was greeted with the same kind of fanfare that Sam Peckinpah""s violentThe Wild Bunch (1969)received many years later.By hacking with a probe into another Imperial security droid, K-2SO learned the exact location of the data vault.There, a young, newly-arrived (a month earlier), innocent-looking Puerto Rican girl, Maria (Natalie Wood in her second adult film role), speaks in a heavy accent to Anita (Rita Moreno) while she makes alterations to Maria""s dress for the evening""s dance.Brick: (detached) Give me my crutch, Maggie.Maggie: Lean on me, baby.(He turns and stiffly ignores her) (She warmly hugs him from behind) You""ve got a nice smell about you.