" David Warfield told his daughter to let Lois leave, and also recommended firing the mostly-absent Clark.The intelligent, exciting, theatrical, but moody, downbeat crime drama-thriller (and melodramatic film noir) was adapted from Maxwell Anderson""s 1939 Broadway stage play by director John Huston and Richard Brooks.Surprisingly, it was nominated foronlythree Academy Awards in 1950, including Best Director, and Best Film Editing." He also claimed that Shanghai Lily""s seduction made one man go insane and that she had an awful reputation: "For he last fortnight, I""ve been attending a man who went out of his mind after spending every penny on her.The vengeful, fire-spewing dragon Smaug (voice of Benedict Cumberbatch) was seen descending over the town and blasting it with his fiery breath.