..- drama stalks - NIGHT after NIGHTThe film""s screenplay was adapted from Louis Bromfield""sCosmopolitanmagazine story, "Single Night.[In the early part of the film, his unrequited love for Rosaline is not made obvious.] After a solitary Romeo (Leonard Whiting) appears, he notices wounded men being carried about:God""s me, what fray was here? Yet tell me not for I have heard it all.[The town""s name is consistently mis-pronounced in the film.] Agatha insists that her obnoxious mother Mrs.Hermisillo Brunch (Jessie Ralph) live with the family, that also includes two dreadful daughters.In one of the film""s first lines during a breakfast scene (accompanied by a sick-sounding trumpet playingThere""s No Place Like Home,) his grouchy mother-in-law complains to Agatha about an off-screen Egbert: "What""s he up to now?" She criticizes Egbert""s bad habits, threatening to move out and "go on the county" welfare instead, while complaining about her "lingering death":Well, I bet you anything he""s smoking up in his room again.We""re ired of hearing nothing but doom and despair on the radio." Mrs.Mitchell proposes that it be "something simple and real, something with hope in it." She finds her husband""s leatherbound diary and entrusts it to Ann: "There""s enough in it for a hundred speeches, things people ought to hear nowadays.]" As wo bearded, self-righteous Pharisees (Gunther von Ritzau and Erich von Stroheim) walk along a street, others bow toward them.