Selznick also wrote the screenplay for director John Cromwell""s epic, three-hour work, based upon Margaret Buell Wilder""s 1943 novel: "Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife" - composed of a collection of letters from homefront wife Wilder to her overseas husband while he was away at war.They found some much-needed rest and food in the storeroom, although Peter was anxious to investigate the mall itself: "There""s an awful lot of stuff down there that we could use.Mundson has already made millions on an international illegal tungsten cartel.] This provides Gilda and Johnny with their first opportunity to speak together without him present.As it turns out, Gilda is Johnny""s ex-lover and former flame and both are ex-patriate Americans.[Note: The film""s MacGuffin was the unknown nature of the relationship between Gilda and Johnny before their breakup as a couple."Royal Pain" by the Eels played as Shrek acted disastrously as King -- he accidentally stabbed a knight during a knight ceremony, and at the dock during a boat christening, he sank the ship with a heaved bottle of champagne.Prudish Trish wouldn""t let wide-eyed Tommy watch the "pack of patooties" from the shore after they drove up on the cavorting eens, but they invited her to their party that night.