He had been summoned to serve as a psychiatrist, confer with Mrs.Venable, and determine a diagnosis for Catherine.The truth about the real character of Sebastian was finally uncovered by the film""s end.The scriptwriters (Vidal and Williams) and director Mankiewicz decided to open up the original novel""s set (the Venable house and tropical gardens) by expanding to other locales only described in dialogues or monogues in the play (i.A time before.There were perfect hings, diamond absolutes.How things fall.Things on Earth.And what falls...is fallen." A flashback revisited the night that young nine year-old Bruce""s (Brandon Spink) parents, Martha (Lauren Cohan) and Thomas Wayne (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the CEO of Wayne Enterprises, were gunned down on a street in 1981 (the movie marquee closeby was showingExcalibur (1981)).W.Griffith in its style (the use of stark, expressionistic black and white cinematography, archaic camera devices such as iris down) and in its casting of Griffith""s principal protegé/silent star, the legendary Lillian Gish (in her first film sincePortrait of Jennie (1948)).Director Joseph H.Lewis""s cult picture was taken from aSaturday Evening Poststory by novelist MacKinlay Kantor, and developed from a screenplay by Kantor and blacklisted Dalton Trumbo (credited as Millard Kaufman o hide the fact that he was one of the Hollywood Ten).Ray: Things pretty rough for you at home?Jim: What a zoo!Ray: What?Jim: It""s a zoo.He always wants to be my pal, you know? But how can I give him anything? If he""s, well, I mean I love him and all hat type of stuff, and I-I mean, I don""t want to hurt him.