Fields wrote the original screenplay, but credits himself with thenom de plumeof Mahatma Kane Jeeves (a play on the phrase often heard in English drawing-room comedies: ""My hat, my cane, Jeeves"").It was a symbolic ""haves & have-nots"" class-struggle story with prototypical characters.The masses of poverty-stricken, exploited residents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were forced to live in the empty, embattled streets.The killer inadvertently heard a radio report, from a loud boom box carried by a teenager in the downtown area, that Laurie had been taken to the Haddonfield Hospital, and he followed her there on foot.The song prompts Michael to ask Elsa about her feelings about love, as he steers the yacht through the tropical ocean.