 According to writer Frederic Raphael (qv), the final form of  Bills family name (Harford, as opposed to Scheuer in the original  story) was inspired by a debate about Bills character. Raphael felt  Bill should be Jewish as in the original, but Stanley Kubrick (qv)  insisted Bill and Alice be "vanilla" Americans, without any details  that would arouse any presumptions. Kubrick said that Bill should be  a bit like Harrison Ford (I) (qv) 