Later, on board Blackbeard""s ship, Angelica provided details of the Fountain""s "profane ritual" to Jack - three ingredients were required so that "you may take all the years of life from another":Fountain of Youth watera Mermaid""s "shimmering tear" - and it had to be "fresh"Ponce de Leon""s two Silver Chalices - "One cup with a tear, one without.But in every age, there are those who fight against it.Charles Xavier was born into a world divided, a world he tried to heal - a mission he never saw accomplished.Preminger""s film falls under the category of romantic, melodramatic mystery/detective thriller.It might also be called a psychological study of deviant, kinky obsession, because almost everyone in the cast loves the title character - Laura.She made him become what he always wanted to be - a lover, a hero, a rich man...and a killer!Laugh, Cry, and Dream...There were varying dates given for the film (1980 and 1981), due to a number of factors:it was filmed in 1979it was shown at the Venice Film Festival in late August-early September 1980it was then released in France, Italy and Germany in 1980its first US showing was April 2, 1981 at the Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Filmex)its official US premiere was April 3, 1981, with nationwide showings beginning a week laterThe film was praised at the time by the Academy of Motion Pictures with five major nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Malle), Best Actor (Lancaster with his fourth and last career nomination), Best Actress (Sarandon with her first nomination), and Best Original Screenplay (John Guare), but went away empty-handed."With a wide-open mouth, he cackled at her, as he back doors of the church opened and his mother Amanda (wearing her nun""s habit) appeared to rail against his unholy birth: "Your birth was a curse on the whole of humanity.