Miguel Salazar (Antone DiLeo).He called out with a bullhorn for survivors ("Hello, is anyone there?") of an unknown catastrophe in the small Florida city, streets littered with wind-blown dead palm fronds, crashed cars, a rotting corpse covered with crabs, cash, trash and newspapers (headlined: "THE DEAD WALK").It was filled with sexual metaphors, including semi-incestuous desire, jealousy, seduction, frigidity, virginity, off-screen rape by a brutal male attacker, insanity and sexual aversion leading to homicide - a predecessor to Roman Polanski'sRepulsion (1965), and sharing many similarities with Hitchcock'sRebecca (1940).Later in the story, while Lige was rounding up stampeding wild horses with other ranchers, Roddy returned to Lige's isolated cabin to assault he still-virginal Letty, who had been left alone and turned half-crazy due to the constantly howling, remorseless tempest wind.The well-dressed gentleman (he had removed his outer coat, but was wearing a tie), who was quietly minding his own business, was black stranger Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) who was awaiting a late night train to Memphis.