]William A.Drake""s screenplay was based on his own play adaptation of author/playwright Vicki Baum""s 1929 best-selling novelMenschen im Hotel(translated ""People at the Hotel"")...Soon, Kali Ma will rule the world." While his mouth was forcibly held open, the blood of Kali was poured into Indy to put him under an evil spell and nightmarish crazed trance ("The black sleep of Kali Ma") - and he began to serve the High Priest (who also had placed the 13-year old Maharaja under the same spell).He had still not found a "big story" to extricate himself from the ""land of entrapment.""And he rattled off a "long-playing" series of things that Albuquerque sorely lacked - making reference to President FDR""s "live in infamy" pronouncement regarding Japan""s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941:ethnic food and delis, such as Lindy""sbig-scale entertainment at Madison Square Gardenmajor-league baseball (NY Yankees and cultural icon Yogi Berra, the famed catcher from 1946–1963)subwaysincessant noise (the "beautiful roar from 8 million ants - fighting, cursing, loving")Broadways shows (such asSouth Pacific, that played from 1949-1954)classy dames in barsskyscrapers (to commit suicide)big hot news-storiesTatum: When the history of this sunbaked Siberia is written, these shameful words will live in infamy: ""No chopped chicken liver.He claimed: "I am the world""s first fully-functioning homicidal artist" - demonstrated by showing her the deformed face of Alicia ("she""s a living work of art").