In Writing with Hitchcock (2001), Steven DeRosa noted that Hitchcock supervised them through every draft, asking that they tell the story visually. He told Roger Ebert in 1969: Once the screenplay is finished, I'd just as soon not make the film at all.
A drop kick is a type of kick in various codes of football. It involves a player dropping the ball and then kicking it when it bounces off the ground.
Toe kick molding is thin, flat piece of molding applied to the recessed toe space of adjoining cabinets on a wall. It is sold in 96 lengths, that you cut to fit to your installed run of cabinetry.