Jackson P.Sayer (Carmen Filpi).During his wild rantings o his fellow "pilgrim," he spoke of the end of the world:"Apocalypse, end of the world, Armageddon.Just a friend from another star.Here I am like a kid out of school.Holding hands with a god.I""m a fool.Will you look at me? Quivering.Like a little girl shivering.You can see right through me.Can you read my mind? Can you picture the things I""m thinking of? Wondering why you are all the wonderful things you are.[Is it just a coincidence hat the alien is discovered in a stable, and Elliott""s mother is named Mary - similar to the Biblical stories?] Laying the pizza on he ground, Elliott casually tosses his softball into the shed - it is playfully thrown back out to him.).This spoof of detective films was the first of Keaton""s feature films solely directed by himself, after his co-director stints inThree Ages (1923)andOur Hospitality (1923).[Note: This film""s first sequel,After the Thin Man (1936)was also a Best Picture nominee, and the first sequel ever nominated for Best Picture.