Actors who were offered or considered for the role of the middle-aged, obsessed European intellectual included Kubrick""s first choice - Noel Coward, then Cary Grant, Laurence Olivier, Rex Harrison, and David Niven.The film effectively focused on character interaction among its ensemble cast, with natural and rapid-fire dialogue between many characters, a convincing-looking and beseiged remote location, red herrings to create suspense, few ambiguous glimpses of "The Thing" until late into the film, appropriate scientific jargon, and the slow menace of the threatening creature...We will turn you into us.And the best part? You won""t even know it""s happening."Indy was completely shocked when the Russians revealed Mutt""s mother - Indiana""s old girlfriend/lover Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen).At the Giza port in Cairo, Evelyn and her brother met up with the "filthy scoundrel" O""Connell for their "adventure" to the ruins, navigating there on the Nile.The third.The third.The one with the erratum on page one-sixteen.Agnes: I""m afraid not.Marlowe: Uh, how about a Chevalier Audubon 1840 - a full set, of course?Agnes: Not at the moment.Marlowe: You do sell books? Hmm?Agnes: What do those look like, grapefruit?Marlowe: Well, from here, they look like books.