As Powers avoided being strangled from behind by Patty O""Brien, the Cowboy believed he was straining due to constipation ("Don""t force it.The groundwork for their affinity for each other has been well-established long before they actually meet.As the coach crawled across the floor, two jump ropes wrapped around each of his wrists and dragged him protesting into the shower room.He grabbed the Princess"" one silk slipper and dove through an open window to flee from the palace.The Mongol slave-servant realized she had been fooled and yelled out an alarm.Down on the street level, the Thief""s dismayed associate asked:Associate: "The treasure - where is it?"The Thief: (holding up the slipper) """Tis here - " BackgroundThe Thing (From Another World)(1951) is an influential and aut horror and science-fiction B-film hybrid, loosely based (by screenwriter Charles Lederer) on the short storyWho Goes There?by John W.