" BackgroundOne of cinema""s greatest classic adventure stories is director Victor Fleming""sCaptains Courageous(1937)."Luthor and Lenny fled on a highway in Lenny""s roadster.Luthor asserted that he would have to lay low for a few years, but would come up with a "new plan." Suddenly, their car was picked up by Superman - Lenny was deposited at Metropolis"" church-sponsored Boys Town Remedial Home, while Luthor was returned to the rock quarry work gang.The opening logo of Paramount Pictures (a jagged mountain surrounded by clouds) turned into a large brass oriental gong.You""ve gotta have money to pay for all those hings.So you go after what the other fella""s got.And there you are - you""re a heelot yourself.In the hotel room after he has been shaved and costumed, John Doe is photographed - and posed by Ann to strike a serious, "crabby" expression as if he""s "disgusted with all of civilization" and "sore at the world.