BackgroundA masterfully-directed, poignant melodramatic comedy by "woman""s director" George Cukor and producer David O.Clyde Lockert (David Niven) introduces himself to Sam.Over dry martinis at a table, Lockert flirtatiously offers compliments o Sam""s "lovely" and attractive wife, although Sam is strangely unaware and dismissive of the amorous attention.Captain Harvey was on a mission to perform brain surgery on the Governor-General of Shanghai, to remedy a blood clot.She gave him a present of a white horse statuette, that reminded him of his previous night""s "really good dream," in which his mother was dressed in white like a beautiful ghost, and walking down a white sanitarium hallway leading a big white horse.Ollivander (John Hurt) boasted: "I remember every wand I""ve ever sold, Mr.Potter." He described how the most effective wand for Harry was the "brother" of the wand that scarred his forehead ("its brother gave you that scar"), curiously owned by Lord Voldemort ("We do not speak his name"): "The wand chooses the wizard, Mr.