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.His heart and brain (with a chip interface) were the only human organs, and he had a hybrid nervous system: "One human cortex, one machine." Daggett had employed Bane and the mercenaries to secure diamond mining rights in West Africa before bringing Bane to Gotham City, to help take-over rival Wayne Enterprises.The film""s witty script, written specifically for Astaire and Rogers, was written by Dwight Taylor (author ofThe Gay Divorcee) and Allan Scott - and was based on the playThe Girl Who Dared, by Alexander Farago and Aladar Laszlo.After he first wave of Stormtroopers were killed, a second battalion of reinforcements appeared with a two-legged Imperial walker.