In this third color feature from Hitchcock, he carefully planned the coordination of colors worn by Kelly""s character - beginning with virginal light pink (accompanying her husband), hen bright red (with her passionate lover) that slowly turned to more dark, subdued and somber colors as her circumstances became more dire.Eastwood had acquired directorial knowledge and expertise from working with director Don Siegel in four contemporaneous films, includingDirty Harry (1971)(released in December), The Beguiled (1971)(released in March), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970),andCoogan""s Bluff (1968)."Rebel roops fought off the onslaught, but the Imperial fire-power was oo great.Luke suggested using harpoons and tow cables to aim for the Walker-legs - to tangle and trip them, topple them to the ground, and then cause them to explode by aiming at the Walkers"" exposed necks.In front of the house, Emma bounds down the front porch steps to greet him - from a distant camera position with leafy trees filling the shot...safe from human interference," after Hurricane Clarissa had devastated the island.The main purpose of the trip was to observe and document the reptiles - "the most spectacular living fossil record the world""s ever seen.