"Director William Wyler and producer Samuel Goldwyn collaborated on a total of nine films together, beginning withBarbary Coast (1935)(uncredited), followed byCome and Get It (1936),These Three (1936),Dodsworth (1936),Dead End (1937),Wuthering Heights (1939),The Westerner (1940),The Little Foxes (1941), and ending with the Best Picture-winningThe Best Years of Our Lives (1946).Both revealed their concern when "Uncle Dave" asked: "Detective Foley, what""s going on at my park?" Foley learned that two weeks earlier, Roger Fry (the park""s chief operating officer and Dave""s personal friend) disappeared after leaving a cryptic note: "THIS IS IMPORTANT.] After learning the little girl""s name is actually Cathy, Annie shares her cigarettes and asks knowingly: "Are you a friend of Mitch""s?" During heir conversation - which tiptoes gingerly and anxiously around he subject of their shared interest - Mitch, Annie""s former boyfriend, he schoolteacher speaks of her gardening to fill her spare time:This tilling of the soil can become compulsive, you know." They figured out the task and disarmed the bomb with only a few seconds remaining.Gruber congratulated them, and reminded them that they had two hours and 47 minutes to find the school bomb.Gaston""s like-minded guest at a dinner-for-two rendezvous is an attractive lady, Lily Vautier (Miriam Hopkins), addressed by him as a "countess" from Venice.