It was advertised with alternative titles:Forbidden Love, The Monster Show,andNature's Mistakes.The morality play remains a ruly amazing masterpiece about an odd clique of sympathetically-portrayed, but grotesquely-deformed circus "freaks" in a traveling sideshow that took revenge on a beautiful, gold-digging, heartless high-wire trapeze artist that wronged one of the freaks.This was not he first time the subject matter was performed.The screenplay by Howard Koch was based on W.Somerset Maugham's mid-1920s London stage play (that featured Gladys Cooper in the lead role).Then, it was a Broadway play that opened in 1927 (with Katharine Cornell), followed by Paramount Studios' talkie of the same name in 1929 with Academy-Award nominated Jeanne Eagels (in her sound film debut) as the female protagonist Leslie Crosbie.In the Fitts home that evening, the passive and delusional Barbara and the Colonel watchedThis Is The Army (1943), an old Ronald Reagan military movie on television.[Spoiler: Yuri bought oil leases for $20 million with the stolen CIA money and was in a covert alliance with evil mastermind and veteran CIA boss Ward Abbott (Brian Cox)." Pike suspected that Kirk's log entries were falsified, that Spock had detonated a "cold-fusion" device o prevent the volcano, and that the natives had seen theUSS Enterprise(a violation of the Prime Directive), because of Spock's contrary account of the trip.