" Jor-El was immediately arrested, but soon overtook his captors.He communicated with his wife Lara via Kelex, o warn and prepare for what was coming: "You have to ready the launch.He first asks her why she called his nephew ""Pancho"", and she doesn""t know why, responding: "Just for laughs, I guess.The wildly successful "photo-dramatic production" was based upon Samson Raphaelson""s 1921 short story "The Day of Atonement" (also the basis for Raphaelson""s popular 1926 Broadway play of the same name), and adapted for the screen by Alfred A.Lige upstaged him and stated his own romantic interests: "Are ye, indeed, Mr.Sourdough? Wal, so am I!" Sourdough drew his long-barreled revolver and proposed another shooting contest to decide who would be the lucky suitor.