In the lab area, Bub was able to release himself, and expressed genuine emotion and grief when he found the bloodied body of his partriarchal master - Dr.The gothic, noirish and effective melodrama, with the heme of a menaced, terrorized, sheltered or threatened woman (or wife) by a deranged man (often a husband), was one of a number of similar films made in the 1940s:Alfred Hitchcock""sRebecca (1940), with Joan FontaineAlfred Hitchcock""sSuspicion (1941), with Joan FontaineRobert Stevenson""sJane Eyre (1943), with Joan FontaineAlfred Hitchcock""sShadow of a Doubt (1943), with Teresa WrightOtto Preminger""sLaura (1944), with Gene TierneyWilliam Castle""sWhen Strangers Marry (1944) (aka Betrayed), with Kim HunterJoseph H.He had been summoned to serve as a psychiatrist, confer with Mrs.Venable, and determine a diagnosis for Catherine.The truth about the real character of Sebastian was finally uncovered by the film""s end.The scriptwriters (Vidal and Williams) and director Mankiewicz decided to open up the original novel""s set (the Venable house and tropical gardens) by expanding to other locales only described in dialogues or monogues in the play (i.Next, Gittes tails him in his car, watching him from his rear-view mirror for more clues.He watches Mulwray as he gazes for many hours at the ocean from a coastal beach.At nightfall, water mysteriously runs out of a run-off pipe near the ocean and channels itself into the Pacific.