He was again teamed with his co-star Jean Arthur (in the role of a cynical secretary) from the previous year's Best Picture winner, Capra'sYou Can't Take It With You (1938).Not knowing the suspicious package's contents (a bottle of gin), Eddie loudly announces the delivery and is arrested, with Panama, by two undercover agents for violating the Volstead Act.]She first confesses the dynamic passion she experienced in her transformational escape from her ordinary routine, considered unusually climactic for an "ordinary woman.(Although Robert Towne, who later wroteChinatown (1974), worked on he final form of the screenplay and served as a special consultant, he took no screen credit.In the film's prologue set about 8 weeks before the events in the film, 12 year-old Eric (Trevor Morgan) and an adult family friend Ben Hildebrand (Mark Harelik) were para-sailing near Isla Sorna 207 miles west of Costa Rica.