Lawrence Kasdan:
[Indiana Jones]
Henry Follett compares the box Mumford gives him to the lost Ark. Lawrence Kasdan cowrote Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
Dr. Ernest Delbanco is loosely based on the well-known German Dermatologist of the 1930s, Dr. Ernst Delbanco, who pioneered treatments of venereal disease.
Dr. Ernest Delbanco: ...no one can escape the fear of death. It is, as William James put it, 'the worm at the core,' and try as we may to forget or ignore our own mortality, the skull will grin in at the banquet.