It would take many decades for the film to be hailed as one of the best ever made.Filled with hilarious sight gags and perfectly timed stunt work, the chase comedy was written and directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, and filmed with a huge budget for its time ($750,000 supplied by Metro chief Joseph Schenck).SAVE OUR CITY!!!LOS ANGELES IS DYING OF THIRST!VOTE YES!November 6th.He tosses away the flyer about the drought-stricken city""s water supply.A cheap pocket watch placed by Gittes under one of the tires on Mulwray""s car is later picked up and indicates hat he was "there all night" - he left at 1:50 am.Cathy: Where?Heathcliff: Anywhere.Cathy: And live in haystacks and steal our food from the marketplaces? No Heathcliff, that""s not what I want.The film""s climactic final revelation, from Princess to Creature, was an inverted "Beauty and the Beast" plot element.She is a mercenary counterspy from the continent [not identified, but presumably Nazi Germany] working with the British against her own country.