Bush).Assassins also targeted Murtaugh at his home (while guarding Getz), where he had gone to view an old home-made family fishing trip videotape - he realized that "Alba Varden" referred to a South African ship, not a woman - it was Rudd""s means of smuggling drug money out of the US.The downbeat screenplay was based on Geoffrey Homes"" (a pseudonym - his real name was Daniel Mainwaring) 1946 novelBuild My Gallows High, a book that consciously imitated Dashiell Hammett""sThe Maltese Falcon (1941).In the beginning credits titled "The Players," the Monster is listed fourth, with a question mark after its name.She repudiated her father and claimed that he betrayed he United States, and she expressed her love, patriotism and loyalty o the US:Alicia: I told you before Christmas I wouldn""t do it.