The film was a major box-office success for Warner Bros - it became the second highest grossing box-office hit of the year for Warners (afterDesperate Journey (1942)).As he walked off, he killed the three chained-up ""working"" zombies.In another area of the island, Muldoon was overseeing the capture and imprisonment of zombies (now called "dumb-f--ks") in stalls within a horse barn, supervised by his hired ranch hand Chuck (Joris Jarsky).While Tommy was standing under the buzzing Trailer Park neon sign, Junior drove up on his motorcycle, startled him, and asked: "Are you dumb or something?" When Junior assailed Tommy and called him "a crazy from the looney bin," and threatened to chop him up ("My mama""s gonna chop you up into itty-bitty pieces, my friend") - and then threw a wayward punch, Tommy ducked and fought back, using some of his fast kung-fu kicks, punches and moves to subdue Junior.This was not he first time the subject matter was performed.The screenplay by Howard Koch was based on W.Somerset Maugham""s mid-1920s London stage play (that featured Gladys Cooper in the lead role).Then, it was a Broadway play that opened in 1927 (with Katharine Cornell), followed by Paramount Studios"" talkie of the same name in 1929 with Academy-Award nominated Jeanne Eagels (in her sound film debut) as the female protagonist Leslie Crosbie." Philip""s misguided intention was to marry Mildred after her child was born, but a bored and restless Mildred was a disinterested mother after he baby""s birth, and gave up the baby""s care to a nurse.