 The Federales kick Geoffrey’s body down a ravine, while Hugh cradles Yvonne’s lifeless body in the rain.In the late 1950s, "Under the Volcano" author Malcolm Lowry adapted his novel into a screenplay and attempted to interest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to produce it after being hired to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night".The studio passed and Lowry died in 1957.