It somewhat resembled star Humphrey Bogart""s earlier filmThe Petrified Forest (1936)about another hostage situation.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With a production budget of $54 million, and box-office gross receipts of $108 million (domestic).Warner Bros.released the film in Europe at the end of 1980, but waited about seven months later to release it in the summer of 1981 in the US.Rey was drawn to the water""s edge of the cliff and was pulled into the water.She found herself in a cave, where she saw numerous mirror reflections of herself (an infinity mirror) on a shiny wall of polished stone.1 million (and with box-office revenues between $1.5 and $2 million).The Art Deco-styled Arabian Nights fantasy, the first major visual effects epic in American film-making history, had a lasting influence on other fantasy tales, but it was a box-office failure and underappreciated at the time.