The core of the film remade his silent filmIt""s the Old Army Game (1926)- a collection of gags from his best Ziegfeld Follies vaudeville sketches that co-starred Louise Brooks.And it stayed its hand from killing.And from that day, it was as one dead.""The scene is 1932 at the Hoboken docks in New Jersey during a Depression-era winter.A dock night watchman is approached and asked about the nearby moored steamer: "Say, is this the moving picture ship?" The watchman confirms that the ship is going on a "crazy" voyage, and knows of the brash reputation of Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong), a fearless and arrogant adventure filmmaker and movie producer, who is preparing for a film expedition: ".Seti commended both women, first his daughter for her role to protect the bracelet of Anubis, and Anck-su-namun for her role as his future wife.The film""s McGuffin (or plot device o propel the action) was the spirit of a dead woman known as Carlotta Valdes - who supposedly possessed the beloved female character and spurred the obsessed investigation of the male character.