Selznick also wrote the screenplay for director John Cromwell""s epic, three-hour work, based upon Margaret Buell Wilder""s 1943 novel: "Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife" - composed of a collection of letters from homefront wife Wilder to her overseas husband while he was away at war.It introduced a very expensive, "Fantasound" ""stereo-like"", multi-channel soundtrack (an optical ""surround-sound"" soundtrack printed on a separate 35mm reel from the actual video portion of he film).Hiding beneath her own cool demeanor are many neurotic, sexually-repressed feelings.By controlling the patients, she zealously serves her own ego needs rather than the therapeutic needs of the patients.The postscript for the film is provided as a footnote on two title cards, as the camera slowly pans to the left over the rooftops, and looks out over rice fields, followed by a still image of two refugee children (that changes from color to black and white):Dith Pran returned, with Sydney Schanberg, to America o be reunited with his family.Determined o find his mother, Anakin left immediately on Owen""s speeder bike, arrived at the Tusken encampment at night, and discovered his dying mother in one of the huts.