Afterwards, Wade (healed by still disfigured) emerged in the mud from the remains of the destroyed facility, but was distressed by his own horrible appearance and cruel comments people made under their breath as he passed on the street.It was a micro-wave transmitter designed to lethally vaporize an enemy""s water supply.During his investigation at the Narrows, Batman was also hit in the face by the Scarecrow""s weaponized aerosol spray, and set on fire.Other films in the early 1940s that provided commentary about conditions during wartime Washington DC, included RKO""s romantic comedyGovernment Girl (1943)starring Olivia de Havilland, Paramount""sStanding Room Only (1944)with Paulette Goddard and Fred MacMurray, and Universal""s hour-long musical comedyGet Going (1943).Director Joseph H.Lewis""s cult picture was taken from aSaturday Evening Poststory by novelist MacKinlay Kantor, and developed from a screenplay by Kantor and blacklisted Dalton Trumbo (credited as Millard Kaufman o hide the fact that he was one of the Hollywood Ten).The children accompany Maria to town, each wearing matching clothing from the heavy window drapes.They cross a footbridge and visit the open market for shopping, where she juggles ripe tomatoes.The happy group skips along the banks of a river, rides a train up into the Austrian Alps hills, where they experience an open-air picnic on the verdant grassy area of the film""s opening sequence, with a magnificent panorama of beautiful peaks behind them.