[Note: The on-location exterior settings of the film revealed a small-town environment, although it was obviously set in the movie-land of Hollywood, a locale of illusory dream-making.However, Neville discovered the Room of Requirement - a secret "Come and Go Room" that appeared since they had "real need" of it for their secret meetings: "It""s like Hogwarts wants us to fight back.The fire scar-faced slasher, with a red/green striped sweater and brown fedora hat, clawed with his bladed hand through the door""s window, and screamed to the adoring audience of fans:"I""m alive once again.Give me that letter! And take those skates off, I told you.Clattering up and down the stairs all day." It is early morning and the family has just received a letter from Aunt Matilda about the expected demise of Uncle Bean.John Arnold""s impressive cinematography was taken under difficult circumstances - the temperature during the shoot in the Mojave Desert (near Bakersfield) was often over 100 degrees F.