Verna: This is great, but where do we go after the second feature?Cody: You""re staying put.I""m the only one goin"" anyplace.Ma: Where, Cody?Cody: To give myself up.Ma: What are you talking about? You haven""t a chance.Four dead - it""ll be the gas chamber for sure.Cody: You don""t think I""m dumb enough to give myself up to the T-men, do ya?Verna: What""s the difference? You walk into the cops andtheyturn ya over.His low-budget, independent debut film, a milestone ""splatter"" film, also marked the debut of the ""modern"" zombie film that portrayed zombies as resurrected, cannibalistic ""flesh-eaters"" or ""ghouls.It was controversial for a number of offending scenes and plotlines hat were edited out of the film""s original release of US prints, at the behest of the Catholic Legion of Decency.Jake is anxious to tell the same off-color joke to hisconfrereswhen he returns to the office, but he first excuses his slightly-offended secretary Sophie (Nandu Hinds) from hearing the inappropriate joke ("Go to the little girl""s room for a minute").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.