] The power to the house was cut off (by Watkins in the basement), and Ryan realized that they were once again personally threatened.Except for the initial airport sequence, the entire studio-oriented film was shot in a Warner Bros.Hollywood/Burbank studio.Many other 40s stars were considered for the lead roles: Hedy Lamarr, "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan, French actress Michele Morgan, and George Raft.Freddy caught the aberrant hearing aid from the blast and joked: "Nice hearing from you, Carlos."All that was left of Carlos in the bedroom was his hearing aid, found by Tracy.In the downstairs living room, Spencer was smoking pot and falling asleep on the sofa - and would become Freddy""s next prey:Spencer watched an image on the broken-down TV set with a smashed screen (of desperate kids"" faces, scarred or bloodied inside the tube, one of whom was Carlos who screamed a warning: "Don""t fall asleep, man!").His delightfully inventive, and ribald script with fast-paced witty dialogue, delivered mostly by a saucy woman, was taken from the short storyTwo Bad Hatsby English playwright Monckton Hoffe.