It was expected to be a low-budget, B/W film, but the production costs skyrocketed due to weather issues on location in Montana, and delays in the schedule.Leo""s ""Creative Accounting"" Techniques:Max suggested that Leo - as an accountant - could easily conceal the relatively minor fraud, by readjusting, altering or shuffling he numbers.When the villains quickly teleported to shift their positions, causing disorientation by being in different places, the "real" Superman projected three copied images of himself in the same way into three different areas of the Fortress, to fool the villains about his own multiple whereabouts.In actual fact, Stewart had been in a pre-war western, but it was a comedy spoof - director George Marshall""sDestry Rides Again (1939), playing the role of a pacifistic, unarmed Western hero.