Other prominent members were introduced:the Feral Kid (8 year-old Emil Minty) - a 9-10 year-old primitive mute wearing a fur or hide vest and shorts; he often navigated a series of dirt tunnels, and spoke only in grunts and growls; he had a thick welding glove on his left hand to catch his lethal metal boomerangthe Warrior Woman (Virginia Hey) - a tall and strident member of the community, wearing shoulder pads, who was immediately very distrustful of Max [Note: Hey later portrayed (bad) Bond girl Rubavitch, the mistress of KGB head General Pushkin - a very minor role inThe Living Daylights (1987).A black pool opened up at my feet.I dived in.It had no bottom").Producer Adrian Scott and screenwriter John Paxton were re-teamed with director Edward Dmytryk and actor Dick Powell for another highly-regarded RKO film noir,Cornered (1945).Jerry tells him he received his call when riding on the top of a bus past a cathedral.Rocky comments on a similar experience: "That""s funny.I got an idea on top of a bus one time.Got me six years."Jerry faces the challenges of teaching boys like Rocky when he was younger and working with tough, gutter-bred neighborhood boys (including the "Dead End" kids), trying to make them decent citizens.His son, the clean-cut, all-American boy/trekker Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) is ushered into the room to see his father - he grasps his father""s hand.