"" The screenplay (by Harry Ruskin and Niven Busch) was based on the controversial first novel/pot-boiler (1934) of he same name by notorious writer James M.Hildy: (She pauses and walks backwards to him.) What did you say?Bruce: What?Hildy: Go on.(He laughs sheepishly) Well, go ahead.Bruce: Well, I just said, ""Even ten minutes is a long time to be away from you.""Hildy: I heard you the first time.I like it.That""s why I asked you to say it again.Hildy turns and strides through the working offices from left to right.The camera tracks her movement as she extends hellos, a pat on the back, exchanges of information, and smiles to her co-workers.Gordon filled a whiskey bottle with holy water, and took a small crucifix from a baffled priest (exchanging it with his driver""s license).Myers walked down the road toward a vision of his mother dressed in a white gown, holding the reins of a white horse.She offered herself: "I""ve been mistaken.Forgive me." He asked: "So you want to be human? Then wear their mark," and he cruelly branded the palm of her hand with a hot iron.