After its sneak-preview premiere showing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 22, 1967, the film was initially rumored to be shelved (due to its disastrous opening and other negative test screenings), but its strong word of mouth in the intervening months propelled it to be opened in more cities."The two fliers, while both making a play for Bonnie Lee, take her to their place of work for a drink - a flying service owned [for the previous year and a half] by John Vanrider, a Dutchman affectionately named "Dutchy" (Sig Rumann) ("the postmaster and leading banker of Barranca") - the restaurant that he also owns is a combination saloon, general store, hotel, gathering place, and airlines headquarters for Barranca Airways.In the Cerebro dome, the Professor""s intense concentration o kill mutants began to work.Many of the mutants collapsed from a loud humming noise in their heads.Magneto halted the attack by donning his helmet and closing the dome to make it harmless.After reconfiguring the interior tiles of the dome, Mystique (disguised as Stryker) reversed Jason""s directions that caused Professor Xavier to begin killing allhumansinstead of mutants ("There""s been a change of plan")...and New Orleans is missing the parade...Yankee sharpers are smart enough to turn the flow of traffic around.The railroads are gettin"" it...Gentlemen, I have here the figures on he decline in river freight.These figures don""t lie...Now I""m not tryin"" to put the bank into a ten million dollar proposition without knowin"" what I""m talkin"" about.Miles Hidden in Dr.Melik""s Futuristic Home in the Year 2173:Dr.Melik and Dr.Agon (John McLiam) led their patient to an awaiting futuristic bubble car in the parking garage, and drove him to Dr.