She fills him in on "mysterious" and "definitely odd" details of the couple that live in the Alquist home:They never have visitors.Pouring him a glass of ice water, she becomes distracted and he ends up with the overflow on his lap.Julius began singing "New York, New York" in relief.In an unsafe section of the city, they disembarked from the rowboat onto a ladder leading up to a wharf deck.The luridly-colorful set designs by John Barry, costume design by Milena Canonero, the synthesized electronic score by Wendy Carlos [sometimes credited as Walter Carlos - her birth name until undergoing a sex-change operation in 1972 to became Wendy], the colorful and innovative cinematography by John Alcott, and the hybrid, jargonistic, pun-filled language of Burgess"" novel (calledNadsat- an onomatopoetic, expressive combination of English, Russian, and slang), produce a striking, unforgettable film.Its collaborative screenplay was mainly the result of the efforts of Julius J.and Philip G.Epstein and Howard Koch.In all, six writers took the play""s script, and with the models ofAlgiers (1938)andOnly Angels Have Wings (1939)to follow, they transformed the romantic tale into this quintessential classic that samples almost every film genre.