Mrs.Jarvis returned from jogging in the rain to a dark and quiet house.As she called out for everyone ("Anybody home?") and searched around the house (inside and outside), she looked up and was suddenly startled(# 7 death)(off-screen)...A mind weapon.A new frontier of psychic warfare.That was Stalin's dream...(The skull) was not made by human hands...The body we found in New Mexico was not the first.We'd already dissected two others from similar crash sites in Soviet Union...The legends about Akator are all true.Early men could not have conceived it, much less built it.It was a city of supreme beings with technologies and paranormal abilities...The New Mexico specimen gave us hope.Unlike the others we'd found, its skeleton was pure crystal.A distant cousin, perhaps.Maybe they, too, were sent to find Akator.Perhaps we're all searching for the same thing.There is no other explanation...The skull was stolen from Akator in the 15th century.Whoever returns it to the city temple will gain control over its powers."The Russians had taken Oxley prisoner as well, although he could only mutter incomprehensible words, due to the effects of the crystal skull: "He is the divining rod that will lead us to Akator.It revealed rampant bribery, extortions, kickbacks to union officials, payoffs, theft, union-sponsored loan sharks, murder, and the mob's tyrannical influence on New York's waterfront.The film was also one of director George Stevens' earliest films, his eighth feature film (immediately after directing Katharine Hepburn inAlice Adams (1935)and Barbara Stanwyck inAnnie Oakley (1935)).