At a Russian Military Retreat where the meeting was scheduled, the CIA sent in Charles and Erik with MacTaggert to capture Shaw.On a budget of $30 million, he film grossed $63.6 million (domestic) and $254.1 million (worldwide).The film utilized realistic, Oscar-winning computer effects (animatronics and puppets, and digital-enhancement or CGI mostly for mouth movements, by Jim Henson""s Creature Shop and others), along with real pigs and border collies, to portray remarkable talking animals, including:Fly and Rex, border collie SheepdogsFerdinand the Duck (a rascal who thought he was a rooster to spare being eaten)the elderly ewe Maathe Persian house cat Duchessa rio of singing miceand of course, the runty, orphaned piglet BabeThe original film was followed by a less well-received sequel,Babe: Pig in the City (1998).The three villains used their Super-breath to cause a tremendous hurricane-force gale, producing more devastation and chaos (flying cars, phone booths, fire hydrants, etc." As expected, the Gen-Sys Board denied Will""s request and chose to advance other programs and not develop ALZ-112 any further.He was better known for later films, such as:Swing Time (1936),Gunga Din (1939),Penny Serenade (1941),The Talk of the Town (1942),Woman of the Year (1942)(his hird and final film with Hepburn),The More he Merrier (1943),I Remember Mama (1948),A Place in the Sun (1951),Shane (1953), andGiant (1956).