Between the time of the story's serialization and the 1957 filmed version, the McCarran-Walter Act (1952) declared that Japanese wives of US servicement would be allowed into the US...After a dissolve, the setting was the dock at Southhampton where theQueen Marywas disembarking passengers, including Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings)." For his pet project, Nygma demanded immediate funding for human trials, but was rejected by Wayne: "Tampering with people's brain waves, mind manipulation, it just raises too many questions.Hitchcock was noted for films with voyeuristic themes, and this one could be construed as part of a 'trilogy' of films with that preoccupation:Rear Window (1954)Vertigo (1958)Psycho (1960)The film's screenplay, written by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor, was based upon the 1954 mystery novelD'Entre les Morts(literally meaning "From Among the Dead" or "Between Deaths") by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.