Simultaneously, both Ambrose's team (without Nyah) and Ethan proceeded to the heavily-secured Biocyte Island base coastal facility outside of Sydney.The wires on a nearby telephone pole were burned, cutting off communications so that Loomis couldn't call ahead and warn the Haddonfield authorities.Its title was a takeoff on the similar film title,The Philadelphia Story (1940).It was thefifthof eight films that Sturges wrote and directed for Paramount Studios between his most prolific years, from 1940 and 1946:The Great McGinty (1940)Christmas in July (1940)The Lady Eve (1941)Sullivan's Travels (1942)The Palm Beach Story (1942)The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)The Great Moment (1946)The film is literally full of choice, timeless, quotable lines of dialogue, although a portion of the film is slightly dated (the character of the black train porter).It has generally been accepted as part of the Christmas movie tradition, along withA Christmas Carol (1938 and 1951),Holiday Inn (1942),The Bells of St...Yang, what will your enemies say? They'll say river pirates assaulted you, or Nanking surprised you in the night.