Now that Marvin had received confirmation that the tenant-farmers were stealing cotton, he became complicit in their crimes by his denial of knowing about the thefts.He tried to silence her: "I want no orders from a woman." She realized it was their first true, harsh argument since their engagement.Back in Cleopatra""s wagon with Hercules, where she was preparing a meal for him, he realized that she was extorting French money from Hans.]While standing mute by himself on the automated, conveyor walkway moving to the left (with a monotonous recording saying the exact opposite: "Please hold the handrail, and stand to theright.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.