It again reteams Scorsese with his favorite actor, Robert De Niro, who had appeared inMean Streets (1973),Taxi Driver (1976), New York, New York (1977),Raging Bull (1980),andThe King of Comedy (1982)."When Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) gives Eliza some coins, but isn""t given flowers in return, Eliza is cautioned by a bystander that a suspicious character behind a pillar, Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), is "takin"" down ev""ry blessed word you""re sayin"".This visually poetic, melodramatic silent western film, from Frances Marion""s adapted screenplay, was based on the 1925 novel by Dorothy Scarborough.It was billed as "Paramount""s SHOCKING, SUSPENSE-FILLED MASTERPIECE OF LOVE...AND MURDER." From its opening sequence, he film identifies with the self-destructive murderer and his murder plot, using the metaphor of a train ride with the evil heroine that goes "all the way.