You don""t want o quit the department, not for one minute.Bannion: What am I supposed to do? Hold on to my job by just stringin"" along, afraid to look to the left or to the right because I might see something that they don""t want me to see?Katie: You do, you""re gonna have trouble from me.A second tagline read: "He""s the hero - that""s right - the hero!!"It opened in London as a British musical stage play in mid-June of 1973 (and playing in various venues), and then in Los Angeles (at The Roxy Theater, a rock-n-roll nightclub on the Sunset Strip) in late March of 1974 (for a duration of nine-ten months).The big-budget horror film grossed about $33.4 million (on a budget of $2.3 million), and received two Academy Award nominations: one for Polanski""s Best Adapted Screenplay, and Ruth Gordon won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as one of the well-meaning, ""normal"" NYC neighbors.At the end of one of the school""s terms, a group of faculty masters assemble, where one of them remarks about a futuristic book written by the unknown H." An equally plain girl Clara Snyder (Betsy Blair) is in the process of being rejected at the dance by Herb (Alan Wells), her blind date.