Connors! The group met the reknowned one-armed scientist, the world""s foremost authority on herpetology (reptiles), who was seeking a radical solution to create a "world without weakness" hrough Cross Species Genetics (or regeneration).]The many taglines on the film""s posters exclaimed:"EAST OF EDEN is a story of explosive passions and Elia Kazan has made it into a picture of staggering power.Clyde Lockert (David Niven) introduces himself to Sam.Over dry martinis at a table, Lockert flirtatiously offers compliments o Sam""s "lovely" and attractive wife, although Sam is strangely unaware and dismissive of the amorous attention.[Her character represents the novel""s author.Finch was the middle name of Harper Lee""s father.Also, a mockingbird and a Finch arebothsongbirds.] Uncredited Kim Stanley narrates the film in voice-over as an adult version of Scout.She intelligently recalls where she grew up, in a small Southern own, where "the day was 24 hours long, but it seemed longer":Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it.