Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)Based on Walter Wager""s novel58 Minutes.This sequel was set in 1990, about one year after the events of the original film, again on Christmas Eve.)Afterwards, although she was told the arrogant King refused giving her an audience, Anna pushed forward and unceremoniously approached the throne to speak to the King."What a splendid way to wake up each morning," she old her husband at 5 AM.On that Sunday morning while the Hoggetts went off to church, Ferdinand had become frantic after seeing that Farmer Hoggett""s wife Esme had a new, wind-up alarm clock ("mechanical rooster") positioned at her bedside.A radio report by Dr.Millard Rausch (Richard France) was heard, discussing the nature of the zombies: "They are not cannibals.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)), was based on the published 1951 short storyThe Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C.