7 million.It grossed over four times its production cost of $630,000.It was only Fox""s 2nd film shot on location in NYC - its first was director Henry Hathaway""s spy film/thrillerThe House on 92nd Street (1945)- he first major semi-documentary crime thriller.[Metaphorically, his own spirit is drowning in the waters.] The water dissolves and serves as a transition into he next scene.The next morning, his wife tenderly caresses his head and covers him with a bedspread.He wakes up and sits upright, imagining he bulrushes have been exposed.While his wife feeds the chickens (and their chicks) outside, he stares at her and fantasizes that he vamp is caressing and embracing him in more super-imposed shots.Few of the easily-recognizable, elegant "Lubitsch touches" are obvious throughout the film, although the film gracefully and elegantly presents the romantic love affair between the two lead characters.It""s a major rush.I mean, it doesn""t just feel out there, I mean, it feels out there, you know.Uhm, kind of radical in a kind of tubular way, you know.But most of all, it""s out there." "Crash" overheard the inane pitcher""s brainless interview and reacted: "This is hopeless.This is utterly, f--kin"" hopeless."LaLoosh""s and "Crash""s" Encounter in a Country Western Bar:In Mitch""s Bar later that night where players would often hang out after games, patrons danced to country-western music.