His father told him before dying: "Don""t be afraid." The criminal was soon caught, but young Wayne blamed himself for their deaths, telling trusted family butler Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine): "If I hadn""t gotten scared...He""s a completely different person to the one I used to tell you about.She explained how several months earlier, during he ongoing affair that they were having (bridged by letter-writing), Tony had suddenly announced that he was giving up his professional ennis career to settle down to a job and more husbandly duties.""Monkey Business (1931)andHorse Feathers (1932)).The screenplay by Jack Cunningham was based on a story by Charles Bogle (Fields himself, under an alias).It""s more fantastic and grotesque than any shocker ever written."It was unofficially remade twice in two modern retellings -She Freak (1967)andFreakshow (2007).Other horror films that picked up the idea of using real-life deformed or mutated characters (without Browning""s pathos) included director Jack Cardiff""sThe Mutations (1974)and director Michael Winner""sThe Sentinel (1977).As Lori recuperated and slept in the school infirmary, Kia dozed off in the waiting room while reading a magazine about models and plastic surgery: "Becoming Perfect? How Far Would You Go?" - with detailed before/after shots of nose jobs, breast implants, etc.