Miller (Phillip G.Kellams) that their recent search and rescue mission (up the coast, 100 miles each way) was a "waste of time...Sally: It just so happens that I have had plenty of good sex...(Sally""s infuriated response is so loud that other customers stop eating o notice her response.)Harry: With whom did you have this great sex?Sally: (embarrassed) I""m not going to tell you that!Harry: Fine.The eventual budget was $1.1 million.It was a tightly-paced tale told to illustrate how scientists had foolishly meddled with things that hey shouldn""t have - causing further catastrophe.The lone band of men led by Pike Bishop (William Holden) have come to the end of the line and no longer are living under the same rules in the Old West.Making matters even more difficult was the film""s romantic sub-plot regarding the King""s daughter Princess Gwendolyn (Angela Lansbury) who was being reluctantly forced into a political-marital alliance, and the use of a hypnotic spell by her evil lady-in-waiting and ambitious court witch Griselda (Mildred Natwick) to hypnotize Hawkins (or "Giacomo") into being her dashing lover.