An S.A.S.strike team was ordered to attack and kill all its targeted occupants, as the CIA group watched the heat-sensitive photography on a live feed.She had previously collaborated with Swedish director Victor Sjostrom (billed as Victor Seastrom in his American films) for Nathaniel Hawthorne""s classicThe Scarlet Letter (1926).In her dressing room, Frenchy""s chattering black maid Clara (Lillian Yarbo) cowers like "a mass of quiverin"" flesh" from he "boomin"" and the bangin"" of them there pop-guns," although Frenchy is accustomed to gun violence in Bottleneck: "What do you expect in a town like this?" Frenchy bends over and empties her bustier of gold coins:Clara: What""s comin"" up? A new gold rush?Frenchy: We never got anything like that in New Orleans, did we?Clara: Maybe so, maybe so, but it was a heap more peaceful.Cooper won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance inSergeant York (1941)in the same year.Stanwyck""s role as a sassy journalist (similar to Jean Arthur""s part inMr.Smith Goes to Washington (1939)), was originally considered by actresses Ann Sheridan and Olivia de Havilland.There were four otherScorpion Kingfilms:The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008),its sequelThe Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012),The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015), andScorpion King: Book of Souls (2018).