..- drama stalks - NIGHT after NIGHTThe film""s screenplay was adapted from Louis Bromfield""sCosmopolitanmagazine story, "Single Night.Also present was the powerful leader of the militant, animalistic Brotherhood of Mutants - embittered Magneto (Ian McKellen), Xavier""s ex-ally (and Holocaust survivor Eric Lensherr with a number burned into his arm) who could create magnetic fields and control metal.That""s why they call it the Valley of the Dead!" Memnon ordered Thorak to take a dozen of his men and track down Mathayus and kill him, and then retrieve the Sorceress.During the investigation, an unsympathetic Coast Guard official complained about the costly and illegal smuggling of slave labor: "Cost you and me a goddamn fortune.It was put over on the American people while our boys were over there and all our girls were over here.