The film""s screenplay by Carl Foreman [this was his last Hollywood film before blacklist exile to London, soon after his work onHome of the Brave (1949),Champion (1949), andThe Men (1950)], written during a politically-oppressive atmosphere in the early 1950s when McCarthyism and political persecution were rampant, was loosely adapted from aCollier""s MagazinestoryThe Tin Star(by John W.It was he first film to win eleven Oscars - it lost only in the Screenplay category due to a dispute over screenwriting credits (Maxwell Anderson, Christopher Fry, and Gore Vidal were all uncredited).Despite the stern warnings, Dulles communications director Leslie Barnes (Art Evans) plotted to use the newly-installed communication transmitters at the unfinished Annex Skywalk to try to re-establish air traffic communications with the delayed, incoming planes.You""re supposed to be affected, but you""re not...Just another day.Just another death."]Along the way, members of the National Guard in jeeps stopped their vehicle, and while Jason""s camera was forcibly turned off, the soldiers robbed the RV of its supplies and food, leaving hem with only their weapons.