The film was the precursor for another inspirational and popular film (and a similar adaptation of a Stephen King story by writer/director Frank Darabont) -The Green Mile (1999)...without a cane."In the shadows of the club""s rear fire escape steps, 19 year-old Susan Hunsecker (Susan Harrison), wearing an expensive mink coat, eagerly awaits her forbidden lover.Afterwards, the struggling conductor-composer was immediately hired by Lermontov for the Covent Garden Opera House to be a coach (a tutor and accompanist of ballet dancers and/or opera singers during rehearsals), to assist the company""s conductor Livy:I need a new coach for the orchestra.Grasping claws of another tree threaten her.Leaves blown in a whirlwind follow her as she runs for her life.Her frightened psychological state is outwardly manifest in the scenery surrounding her.She is overwhelmed by hundreds of frightening pairs of eyes, and finally collapses on the ground in exhaustion.