In addition to the several silent-era stars who guested in this episode, it was photographed by J. Peverell Marley, who also began in the silent era and was a frequent cinematographer for Cecil B. DeMille.
The movie shown in Lucinda's living room is one of Doris Kenyon's actual silent films, The Valley of the Giants (1927).
This was the first of several episodes in which the detectives become involved in Hollywood filmmaking--and the first which used the Warner Bros. studio as a setting.
The title is from a line of Shakespeare's Macbeth:
She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)
She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)