" When she turns from the mirror, she leaves him still following her with a fixed gaze.She joins him in the tawdry living room, where she looks cool and sexy in a summer dress, but slightly slutty, with a deliberately flashy, fake blonde hairdo with bangs [Stanwyck wore a shoulder-length, phony-looking blonde wig]." In the basement, as he investigated the cause of the power outage and the loud, chugging and leaking washing machine (how could it run without electricity?), he found a bloody sheet inside.They returned o a slightly similar theme two years later in their screenplay forBall of Fire (1941).Other spin-offs of the Ninotchka theme include MGM'sComrade X (1940)with Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr (in he Soviet Union), andThe Iron Petticoat (1956)with Katharine Hepburn and Bob Hope (in London).The classic cult film was the first of many 50's Cold War-inspired science-fiction films, much like other similar "drive in movies" of the 1950s, such asThe War of the Worlds (1953),Forbidden Planet (1956), andInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).