The film was a major box-office success for Warner Bros - it became the second highest grossing box-office hit of the year for Warners (afterDesperate Journey (1942)).Critics of the film complained that in order to make a second rilogy, Jackson had put in a lot of filler material to stretch it out to three films.A bottom-feeding lowlife who""s about to go down in flames." Lounds pleaded for his life and suggested he could be ransomed by his publisher for as much as a million...Why is she like this?Poelzig: Is she not beautiful? I wanted to have her beauty - always.I loved her too, Vitus.Werdegast: Lies.All lies Hjalmar.You killed her.You killed her as I""m about to kill you!Werdegast refuses to believe that both Karens (wife and daughter) died of natural causes, and draws a revolver.