One title screen noted hat the film""s screenwriters used material that was "compiled from many sources and contains material from three novels" (as noted in the "Background" above), and also wrote their script “in accordance with the ancient texts of Philo, Josephus, Eusebius, The Midrash and The Holy Scriptures...If hem cops would stick to their own racket and leave honest guys alone, we""d get somewhere in this country without alot of this relief and all that stuff.In the final scene of the summer vignette, Esther joins an expectant crowd of young people (the ladies are sporting colorful flowery hats and shirt-waist dresses) - they are friends that have gathered for a picnic to ride a trolley bound for the under-construction fairgrounds (the fair is still six months away).In a sweat, Jesse returned to the house and went to the cellar stairs for a closer look.When he noticed a shadow down he flight of stairs, he closed the basement door and tried to hold it shut, but something was pulling on it.