Director Taylor Hackford""s remake, titledAgainst All Odds (1984), starring Jeff Bridges, James Woods and Rachel Ward (and with Jane Greer in a cameo role as the mother of her original character), was an inferior work.He sent the dead body sitting in a chair down to the 30th floor on the elevator (with "Now I Have a Machine Gun - Ho-Ho-Ho" spelled out on his sweatshirt) o alert the terrorists to his presence (and his ability to thwart heir efforts), as he stealthily entered the elevator shaft...Just the other day, at the staff meeting, I was telling Mr.Sheldrake what a reliable man you were." Vanderhof""s extra-marital date is transferred to the following Wednesday - "the only night of the week I can get away," but Mr.That""s all.That""s the whole of it.You still don""t get it, do ya? You don""t care about people, Hud.You don""t give a damn about ""em....Oh, ya got all that charm goin"" for ya, and it makes the youngsters wanna be like ya.That""s the shame of it ""cause you don""t value nothin"".You don""t respect nothin"".You keep no check on your appetites at all.You live just for yourself and that makes ya not fit to live with.Hud responds and admits drunkenly and angrily - to end the conversation: "My mama loved me, but she died.Oh, you don""t like her either.Well, what are you going to do about her? Oh, you just can""t stand it anymore.You""re leaving.These women don""t give you a moment""s peace, do they? Well go ahead! Go sulk in your cabin.Go soak your head and see if I care."As the reclusive millionaire closes his book and walks out, she devises a malicious and effective tactical strategy of her own to snare and hook him - she stretches out her shapely foot and ankle from under the table into his path, tripping him.