An expensively-produced film by David O.Selznick (following his recent success withGone With The Wind (1939)), it was Hitchcock"sfirstAmerican/Hollywood film, although it retained distinctly British characteristics from his earlier murder mysteries.Mimi (Wynant) Jorgensen (Minna Gombell), Wynant"s equally mean-spirited ex-wife, overheard the conversation, and demanded to know where Wynant was.As the rain pulled into the station, Frankenstein was perplexed - he threw open his window and asked a shoe-shine boy: "Pardon me, boy." Doris arrived to drag Susan away, who exclaimed to her mother that "Santa" was "a nice old man, and those whiskers are real, too...less than three days away from this planet"; Kirk replaced and demoted a disgruntled Willard Decker (Stephen Collins) as Captain of theEnterpriseto executive officer (and temporary science officer after a malfunctioning transporter accident); asEpsilon 9was reporting on the size of the cloud, it was also destroyed.