[Note: This scene illustrates the American factory""s obsession with time and automation.] From his work station on the assembly-line, he holds wrenches in both hands to tighten nuts on a long stream of steel plates carried on the conveyor belt production line.Simultaneously, Director Krennic""s shuttlecraft landed on the platform at the base of the Citadel Command Center and he exited - ordering an examination of Death Star-related project files.Actor/director Sydney Pollack""s ultimate choice as the director of he comedy was a new genre for him, since his previous films were mostly serious dramas, includingThey Shoot Horses, Don""t They? (1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Yakuza (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Bobby Deerfield (1977), The Electric Horseman (1979),andAbsence of Malice (1981).Claudette Colbert had previously starred in DeMille""s historical epicThe Sign of the Cross (1932)as the depraved emperor Nero""s lascivious, vixenish wife Poppaea.In Higgins"" study at his residence on Wimpole Street, he professor and his houseguest are studying vowel sounds produced from a vibrating tuning fork taken from a rack full of tuning forks.