The film""s most memorable character was the giant, nine-foot tall, all-powerful, mighty, menacing and massive metallic robot companion-protector named Gort, with a featureless face dissected by an opening visor, smooth metallic surface, straight legs (without knee joints), boots for shoes, and fixed mitten-styled hands (without joints or fingers).At the same time, the NYPD had called for a city-wide evacuation of everything south of 54th Street.Inside Oscorp, Gwen was stalked by the terrorizing Lizard, who grabbed a large Ganali projectile launching device to disperse his harmful cloud of green serum from the peak of the building over the city.And then suddenly, Superman""s hospital bed was empty - he had awakened and flown off.Lois, with one tear falling, was at her computer struggling with writer""s block about her next article, "Why the World Needs Superman.(see end of film)Scene 1: The interior of the railroad telegraph office:Two masked robbers enter a rural RR telegraph office and force the station""s elegraph operator to get the ""signal block"" to stop an approaching rain.]It was based on James Jones"" hefty, 859-page smoldering 1951 novel of the same name, taking its title from Rudyard Kipling""s poem "Gentlemen Rankers" - "damned from here to eternity.