The 20th Century Fox feature was based on ex-Army officer Edmund H.North""s adaptation of the 42-page 1940 short storyFarewell o the Masterby Harry Bates.(Bates"" short story was also reprinted in an anthology of science fiction stories in 1946 entitledAdventures in Time and Space." A priest is saying prayers in German at the gravesite as Martins arrives - there are only a few stoic-faced onlookers and one beautiful woman.[Note: Astaire appeared with Bing Crosby inHoliday Inn (1942), in which Crosby also did an incredibly-dated ""blackface"" number.The next film in the long-running series wasA Good Day to Die Hard (2013), which did the least amount of domestic box-office in the 5-film franchise.Three Parapsychologists at Columbia University:In Weaver Hall in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University, behind the frosted glass door of the Paranormal Studies laboratory, Dr.