The tension-filled, dialogue-heavy plot and character study (with many wordless reaction close-up shots), was beautifully filmed with Karl Freund""s B/W cinematography and supplemented with Max Steiner""s bombastic musical score.It was a triple win for Wilder as Director (Wilder""s second directing Oscar), Producer, and Screenplay author.Insane killer Michael Myers (Dick Warlock) entered a home where an elderly couple named the Elrods lived (the husband was asleep in front of the television, playing Romero""sNight of the Living Dead (1968)).They are actors in the roles.] Speaking about his successful marriage, the balding husband talks directly into the camera with his white haired wife next to him:I was sitting with my friend Arthur Kornblum, in a restaurant, it was a Horn and Hardart Cafeteria, and this beautiful girl walked in - [he gestures toward his wife] - and I turned to Arthur and I said, "Arthur, you see that girl? I""m going to marry her.