The concluding scene was also reviewed, in which the girl who survived - hospitalized Alice Hardy (Adrienne King) - asked a police officer about the boy named Jason who had attacked her in the lake and pulled her under: "Is he dead, too?" - with a replay of the boo-moment, when Jason""s decomposed corpse lept out of the water at her, grabbed her by the neck, and pulled her underwater from the canoe.The film was made for a budget of about $1.8 million, but it became Billy Wilder""s first major financial box-office disaster since he began a long string of hits beginning in the early 1940s.Both of them were treated to a shopping trip to buy new funky 70s-style clothes.In their suite, they were entertained with a reception-party, where Cornelius diplomatically answered a question about human women, and Zira enjoyed a champagne drink described as "Grape Juice Plus.Godby."The seated couple are interrupted by an overbearing, matronly gossip Dolly Messiter (Everley Gregg), who recognizes Laura and joins them for a cup of tea after a day of shopping ("I""ve been shopping till I""m dropping").