Susan sounded her warning horn to summon Peter, who bravely attacked and killed Maugrim with his sword.Defying Lock""s military solution, Morpheus claimed: "There is only one way to save our city...Neo!" When elderly Councillor Hamann (Anthony Zerbe) entered, Morpheus again asserted, in hopeful terms: "There is nothing to fear.[Note: Lancaster previously won Best Actor for his role inElmer Gantry (1960).] Its box-office revenue (domestic) was only $12.73 million (against a budget of $6.2 million), making it the lowest-earning film of the five Best Picture nominees.The most successful film of the year was Paramount""s action-adventureRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981).Plot SynopsisThe Opening Titles Sequence:The romantic crime drama opened with a closeup of fresh lemons being sliced into quarters by a young and pretty woman.Stahl, was based on the recently-written novel by best-selling author Ben Ames Williams.After an intense bidding war, studio head Darryl F.Zanuck acquired the film rights in 1944 for an exorbitant price tag of $100,000 for the unpublished work (it was published a month later).Eric told Jean that he had always admired her as a "goddess" that could do anything - exemplifying "the next stage in evolution.