Liz immediately explores the adjoining parlor room where Mike follows:Liz: What""s this room? I forgot my compass.modern science.Lang""s ambitious, big-budgetMetropoliswas in production for almost two years (at ten times the expense of the average Hollywood production of the time).")a "topnotch" getaway driver who should get $10,000a quick-trigger, reliable "hooligan" or gunman who should get $15,000 ("Most of these fellas are drug addicts, a no-good lot or they wouldn""t be hooligans.They also engaged in pie fights with the zombies, and chopped off heir heads for sport.Angered by their plundering, Stephen muttered: "It""s ours, we took it" - and initiated a gunfight with the looters.Plot SynopsisPlayful Banter Between Crusty Old Sir Wilfrid Robarts, His Assistant Carter, and His Nurse Miss Plimsoll:The setting was Britain in 1952, where an aging, distinguished, crafty, cynical, near-retirement age London barrister/defense attorney Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton) was returning to his home in the back of a chauffeured car after two months of hospitalization for a heart attack, due in part to his wo habitual vices: smoking cigars and drinking brandy.