Both remarked hat they were using fake names.Revealing his close attention o detail, Tony then mentioned that Lesgate had switched from smoking "rather expensive cigars" at college to a pipe.One of the new arrivals to be instructed included runaway Rogue/Marie, with her unfortunate lethal ability to drain a human""s life-energy through simple touch.He needed o strategically absorb her mutant ability into himself in order o power his machine, although it would mean her sacrifice.The top-line, prestige production was directed by William Wyler, a master of romantic period dramas, who had already brought bona-fide classics of literature and the stage to the screen, includingDodsworth (1936),Jezebel (1938),Wuthering Heights (1939),The Letter (1940),The Little Foxes (1941), andMrs.