Hitchcock introduced a ""fascinating new personality"" for the film - his successor to Grace Kelly - a cool, blonde professional model named ""Tippi"" Hedren, in her film debut in a leading role.The film was a superb re-envisioning of the insightful Nicholas Ray, Eisenhower-Era melodrama about the family,Bigger Than Life (1956)- hat also critiqued the suffocating and claustrophobic conformity of 1950s middle-class life in an earlier era.His own heart beat intensified as he was frozen in terrorizing fear.A grenade explosion was followed by Tex""s shout to Chris: "Blow he f--kin"" claymore! Take the safety off, god-damnit!" The flashes of returned automatic machine gun fire momentarily lit up he jungle during the firefight, and the claymores detonated.Kesey had derived most of the novel""s secondary characters from real-life psychiatric ward patients at a VA hospital (in Menlo Park, CA) where he had once worked in a night job in the late 50s.The Snyder-Gray case in the late 1920s prompted the release ofPicture Snatcher (1933)- it starred James Cagney as the daring newspaper photographer who took the taboo picture of a woman dying in the electric chair.