.." who were "holding a convention up there." With an anti-science bias, Dykes negatively noted that they were "looking for polar bear tails." Both Macpherson and Dykes teasingly made side references to Hendry""s previous girlfriend who was still stationed at the base:Macpherson: "You""ll never be able to shoo our Captain southward with his heart wrapped around the North Pole.The R-rated film was commercially successful at the ime of its release and its acting was universally praised.Everyone was frozen in place - except for the President.Before him were the mutants and Professor Xavier, who presented him with files from Stryker""s private offices.] In a medium closeup shot, a French-accented police officer reads a teletype report to all officers (over the radio) about the Tuesday, December 1, 1941 murder of two German couriers and the theft of official important documents they were carrying:To all officers.