"" When the real Yuriko entered he offices, she impersonated the night-time cleaning janitor in order to escape.Miguel Salazar (Antone DiLeo).He called out with a bullhorn for survivors ("Hello, is anyone there?") of an unknown catastrophe in the small Florida city, streets littered with wind-blown dead palm fronds, crashed cars, a rotting corpse covered with crabs, cash, trash and newspapers (headlined: "THE DEAD WALK").She is driven to the vast McCanles empire and Spanish Bit Ranch, and taken in by Laura Belle.At the ranch, sultry but innocent Pearl is warmly welcomed by delicate and frail Laura Belle.Outspoken and cantankerous Senator McCanles (Lionel Barrymore), an invalid in a wheelchair who rules the ranch with an iron hand, abruptly makes references to Pearl as Scott Chavez"" daughter.License plates read "The Primrose State" - although there was no state with that designated nickname.