Won""t be open for another month." McCloud learned that the group had received special treatment as "guests - we""re here by special arrangement.[Note: Hepburn""s suggested itle for the play wasThe Answer to This Malden""s Prayer.]After several commercial failures and labeled "box office poison" in 1938 byPhotoplay Magazine, Hepburn struck out on her own by bringing the property to MGM after buying he film rights to the play."" Although the film appeared during the post-Watergate period and exhibited an obvious distaste for government intervention, its optimistic, loving portrayal of alien encounters was unusual, and set it apart from most science-fiction alien-encounter films of an earlier era." He yelled at MacDonald: "If we lose this battle, it""s the end of the world as we know it! We will have proved ourselves inferior, weak.