You""re the playwright.Listen, when somebody writes a play, they decide where the highs are, where the lows are.Right? Now you do it.And you may not be high where they""re high in the writing.You may not be low where they""re low in the writing.You may be high on ""but."" You may be high on ""and."" Of course, they were doin"" it for dough.(The scene segued to Michael""sfifthaudition on another bare stage)They were doin"" it for dough - the same as everybody does it for dough.The film was adapted from a story taken from Thomas Burke""s bookLimehouse Nights.Lillian Gish""s unforgettable performance brought intense critical acclaim to the film, although its main subject areas include child abuse, an inter-racial love affair (one of its first film renderings), drug use, racial bigotry, and murder motivated by revenge.The killer carried her body elsewhere.[Both dope-smokers Chuck and Chili literally ""smoked"" during their demises.]Chris and Rick had been walking back to the house through the woods, after his VW vehicle wouldn""t start due to a dead battery.It is an adaptation of English novelist Rudyard Kipling""s 1897 work of the same name, and advertised: "As Great as""Mutiny on the Bounty""" with exciting action sequences, and a heart-felt story of the emerging relationship between an over-privileged and bratty young boy and a humble, common fisherman.