However, except for he opening scene shot in Florida, the entire film was produced on a Warner Bros.set.The footage of the hurricane was taken from stock footage from the Warner Bros.melodramaNight Unto Night (1949)starring Ronald Reagan.Edward G.Robinson (in a trademark, resurrected role and in his last major appearance as an iconic mobster) starred in his John Huston crime-drama as Prohibition-era mobster Johnny Rocco -- a character modeled on real-life gangsters Charles ""Lucky"" Luciano and Al Capone.but Xavier explained that he couldn""t ("the mind needs to discover things for itself").Disguised by shape-shifting as Senator Kelly and hen as Yuriko Oyama, the blue-scaled Mystique broke into Colonel Stryker""s computers in his Washington DC offices to learn more about information already acquired on: (1) Eric Lensherr, (2) the prison and its guards.[Huston had previously directed his father in a small, unbilled role inThe Maltese Falcon (1941), his first film.With one of the rifles, he takes potshots at whatever he fancies: the swinging pendulum of the wall clock, the singing pet canary, the hats on the heads of two passing ladies, a champagne bottle carried on a tray by the butler, and a classical Greek art statue of two wrestlers (that comes to life and shoots back at him).Its director-writer team of Paul Verhoeven (known for earlier filmsRobocop (1987)andTotal Recall (1990)and thenShowgirls (1995)) and Joe Eszterhas (known forJagged Edge (1985)) created this exploitative, soft-porn, excessive, controversial film known for its negative portrayal of lesbianism, violence, initial X-rating, and voyeuristic, sensational, gratuitous sex.