The Yellow Man huddles against the brick wall outside his shop, hunched forward in a caved-in posture while hugging both sides of his chest, and reflecting a melancholy gaze in his drug-hooded eyes.It was again remade (with the same gender twist, but newspapers were updated to a TV news environment) asSwitching Channels (1988)by director Ted Kotcheff, with Burt Reynolds and Kathleen Turner in the lead roles, and a frosted-haired Christopher Reeve as the third individual in the love triangle, a New York millionaire.They pull the emergency cord to stop the train as it emerges from a tunnel.Cody dramatically (but unnecessarily) leaps from the ledge of the tunnel""s mouth onto the moving, slowing-down target and makes his way toward the front of the train; Zuckie takes over he controls from the Engineer (Murray Leonard):Engineer: What""s this, a hold-up?Cody: Naw, naw, you""re seven minutes late.The Professor entered the spare room, carrying the cricket ball that had broken the window earlier - he asked what they had been doing in the wardrobe.