The Speckled Band (1931 film) Rylott screams. Holmes, Watson, and Helen enter his room and discover Rylott dead from a snake bite. Holmes forces Ali, the servant, to charm the snake so they can put it in the safe. Violet's last words about a "speckled band" were in fact describing "a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India." The venomous snake had been sent to Violet's room by Dr. Rylott to murder her for her inheritance. Rylott had intended to do the same to Helen. The movie ends with Holmes conducting an experiment in Baker Street. Watson arrives dressed for a wedding, and Holmes therefore
The Rocket (short story) Ritt. Additionally, a comic adaptation by Joe Orlando and Al Feldstein appeared in "Weird Science" (EC Publications, Nov.-Dec. 1953) under its original title "Outcast of the Stars," and later in Bradbury's collection of comic adaptations, "Tomorrow Midnight" (Ballantine, 1966). The 2006 film "The Astronaut Farmer" (with Billy Bob Thornton and Bruce Willis) is loosely based on "The Rocket" and shared a very similar theme and moral. The Rocket (short story) "The Rocket" is a Science fiction short story (initially published under the name "Outcast of the Stars") by American writer Ray Bradbury. It is also included in "The Illustrated Man",