After having Alex sit on the bed next to him, he affectionately puts his arm around Alex""s bare shoulders and speaks to him in the Nadsat lingo of youth:.Its dark tone also recalled Bogart""s first filmTo Have and Have Not (1942)with Lauren Bacall.Due to its stage-play origins (where the sets were confined and limited), the film also was concentrated within a claustrophobic Southern Florida hotel overtaken by sleazy mobsters - in the midst of an off-season impending storm - when volatile elements were converged together (runaway fugitive Indians, a beaten-up deputy and suspicious sheriff, and gangsters delayed during a counterfeit money deal with other criminals from Miami).Zod implored Jor-El, his childhood friend, to join his movement: "Join me.Help me save our race.We""ll start anew." Zod argued for seizing he ""Codex"" that had genetically imprinted and predeterminedly decided the societal roles and fates of all newborns - to eliminate what he called "degenerative bloodlines.Nominated for two Academy Awards (with no wins): Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Makeup.With a production budget of $27 million, and box-office gross receipts of $75 million (domestic) and $97 million (worldwide).