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).His parents"" many friends greet him at the party as he bounces between small groups of adults.They see the young graduate as a means of fulfilling their own ambitions - in classic ""small talk"" encounters:Hey, there""s the award-winning scholar.[Note: The dance club was named after Stanley Kubrick""s science-fiction movie,2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).He took his gloved hand, wiped off some spattered blood, and licked his finger.When Soviet police with dogs found Dortlich""s head on a tree stump, they saw carved-out cheeks that Lecter had cooked with wild mushrooms to make a brochette or shish-ka-bob: "Mushrooms and cheeks.[Official police policy was "to arrest the vigilante known as Batman on sight."]While Wayne Manor was being rebuilt, Bruce Wayne lived in a city penthouse and centered his operations in an underground Batbunker, where he discussed Dent with his butler Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine): "I need to know if he can be trusted.