" She confronted one of the US astronauts, asked: "What kind of a creature are you?", and then stole his patch as she ripped open his spacesuit - depressurizing it and killing him.The evocative, much-loved film was formulated as a stylish rom-com drama (known as ""dramedy""), with liberal and verbose doses of neurotic ("nebbish"), self-defeating, and self-ironic humor.The screenplay by Robert Carson was based on the 1924 novel of the same name by English soldier/author Percival Christopher Wren (1885-1941).[Huston had previously directed his father in a small, unbilled role inThe Maltese Falcon (1941), his first film.