Plan to Summon Dr.Hackenbush to the Sanitarium:Tony""s plan is to make Hackenbush the new Chief of Staff, therefore persuading Mrs.Hud sets a bad example for his young nephew.But when Lon defends Hud in a talk with Homer, he old man delivers the famous line:Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.The main locale, a metaphoric plot setting, was the grimy, perverse, decadent and seedy underground Kit Kat Club, which was led by an impish, leering, mocking androgynous Master of Ceremonies (MC) (Joel Grey)." [Marsdits is an disguised reference to Raymond B.Ditmars, the best-known reptile expert in the country at the time.]Pike is reluctant to say farewell to the "company of men" in the expedition that is on a "pursuit of knowledge," as he leaves with his watchful bodyguard/valet "Muggsy" Murgatroyd (William Demarest).Hitchcock was noted for films with voyeuristic themes, and this one could be construed as part of a ""trilogy"" of films with that preoccupation:Rear Window (1954)Vertigo (1958)Psycho (1960)The film""s screenplay, written by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor, was based upon the 1954 mystery novelD""Entre les Morts(literally meaning "From Among the Dead" or "Between Deaths") by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.