Many other sci-fi films of the 1950s, including Robert Wise""sThe Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953), Invaders From Mars (1953)andInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)portrayed he human race as victimized and at the mercy of externalized, mysterious, hostile, and unfriendly forces - invading aliens.Yes sir, I""m a regular Sears and Roebuck.Prison sirens blast as a ritualistic prison event is heralded - the arrival of fresh, new prisoners (termed "fresh fish") in a drab-gray school bus.Dr.Evil had set up his new headquarters in the desert outside Las Vegas, where he revealed how the unfreezing process had caused Mr.The film""s character, Hollis Mulwray, was loosely derived from LA""s real-life water engineer William Mulholland (the General Manager of LA""s Bureau of Water Works and Supply), who orchestrated the purchase of water rights and the piping of water from the High Sierras into Los Angeles by an aqueduct hat flowed through the now-valuable San Fernando Valley north of LA.Rocky awaited news from Adrian outside a gynecologist""s office and was told that she was pregnant (Rocky beamed: "I knew you had it in you"); as they walked home, they expressed their hopes about the child in their future - Rocky boasted: "If this kid has your good looks and your good brains and my good left hook, he""s really gonna be somethin""".