The imaginative, young Danny Strode had drawn a prophetic picture of the Strodes: Mommy, Uncle Tim, Grandma and Grandpa, all with bloody knives sticking into them, as they stood next to a black object labeled "THORN.Meanwhile, Kyle was taken from his holding cell and escaped (with Star) from a menacing T-600, by jamming a metal rod into its motor cortex.The film had enormous impact, especially upon returning combat-fatigued GIs from WW II who were adjusting and struggling with their own difficulties in civilian life and often turning into alcohol dependents.Hundreds and thousands of people are going to listen to him over the radio.And unless he says something that""s - well, that""s sensational, it""s just no good." Her widowed, kindly mother (Spring Byington), who was married to her philanthropic father Dr.Mitchell who served he needy common people, suggests that the speech that she is writing shouldn""t be one of those "complaining political speeches.