It was adapted for the screen by director Billy Wilder and detective novelist Raymond Chandler (who was best known for his character Philip Marlowe, played by Dick Powell inMurder, My Sweet (1944), Humphrey Bogart inThe Big Sleep (1946), and Robert Montgomery inLady in the Lake (1946), among others).When the wine steward Foussard (Jean Martinelli) (with a white streak in his hair and a limp in his stride) first notices Robie, he prematurely pops the cork on a bottle of champagne and it bubbles over." Kirk hanked Spock: "You saved my life," and he returned the favor: "You saved my life, Captain.And the lives..." Kirk interrupted with a simple two words: "Thank you."The cyrogenic capsules were shut away in long-term storage in a dark warehouse.Khan had been sealed frozen and asleep into a cryo-tube next to his crew members.In the film""s final sequence set at Starfleet headquarters, Kirk had recovered and one year later, he was delivering an address at a commemorative re-christening ceremony for theUSS Enterprise, hat had been repaired and rebuilt.She sees them, hides the flask, and smiles guiltily - admitting that she is a lush who sneaks drinks because she is blue.And then he wildly and destructively pushed multiple ice blocks down an ice chute to the ground - symbolically rejecting the coldness in his life.