Lancaster had earlier played a similar manipulative huckster in the filmThe Rainmaker (1956).The film was very popular and a box-office hit - on a budget of $3 million, it grossed $11.3 million dollars.It was shot in the uncharacteristic and unfashionable aspect ratio of 1.33, in protest to the current prevailing trend for CinemaScope features.The film was nominated for five Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Score (Andre Previn)) and won three: Best Actor for Burt Lancaster (his sole Oscar win of four Best Actor nominations), Best Adapted Screenplay (Richard Brooks), and Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones with her sole Oscar nomination, known for her squeaky-clean role in TV""sThe Partridge Family).Spalko kept urging from the middle of the room: "I want to know.I want to know.Tell me.I""m ready.I want to know.I can see!" As the aliens"" collective knowledge in their crystal skulls was transferred into her mind, her eyes and brain ignited and exploded, and her body disintegrated into pieces as it was absorbed into the portal.Anderson." After his defeat, Agent Smith knew the rules - he was supposed to return to the Matrix""s Source for deletion, but he claimed: "I didn""t.In another part of the hotel, police and hotel managers have gathered to interrogate Monsieur Francois Filiba (Edward Everett Horton) and reconstruct the robbery.Wolverine spoke to Stryker, chained down by Magneto, who asked: "Who has the answers, Wolverine? Those people? That creature in your arms?" Wolverine responded that he would take his chances with his fellow mutants, as Stryker shouted back: "One day, someone will finish what I""ve started, Wolverine! One day!"Vertical thrusters malfunctioned and power problems made it impossible for the X-Jet to take off, and everyone appeared doomed.