The Escudero Ritz.What""ll it be, ocean view or mountain view?"He closed the bedroom door (where Mrs.Minosa was quietly praying) to keep his business dealings private.The first call of the scheming, serpentine-like protagonist was to his boss Mr.Boot in the Albuquerque office - it was his main priority o break his exclusive story - with pictures (the next "front-page feature"), to be brought back by Herbie:I""m in a dreamy little spot called Escudero about hree hours down the line.The First Mate is chauvinistic, but apologetic: "You""re all right, but, but, but women, women just can""t help being a bother.He elaborates the details to a group of admiring children, over-exaggerating the struggle to overcome the bandit, while he performs sleight-of-hand tricks with his smoking cigarette.The screenplay, co-written by director Frank Capra (uncredited) and Robert Riskin, was based on an August 1933Cosmopolitanmagazine story titled "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams.