Critics of the film complained that in order to make a second rilogy, Jackson had put in a lot of filler material to stretch it out to three films.A little canoe trip, headin"" for Aintry.Mountain Man: Aintry?Bobby: Sure, this river only runs one way, captain, haven""t you heard?Mountain Man: You ain""t never gonna get down to Ain-.Autocratically, Marsh screams and snaps at his dance director:Get another girl.You don""t expect to stand there and take a blonde out of your pant""s leg, do ya?Billy befriends and saves the virtuous Peggy ingenue one more time, pointing out to Marsh that although Peggy has been eliminated, she is still backstage.He would be a Messianic figure of sorts.And Ann finagles her job back (her "meal ticket"), with a $1,000 bonus.A number of likely individuals are escorted into Connell""s office for covert interviews.The door opens on "Long John" Willoughby (Gary Cooper) - a plain-speaking, penniless homeless man and an ex-ballplaying (bush-league, sand-lot) pitcher with a sore arm (his "wing went bad").1 million (and with box-office revenues between $1.5 and $2 million).The Art Deco-styled Arabian Nights fantasy, the first major visual effects epic in American film-making history, had a lasting influence on other fantasy tales, but it was a box-office failure and underappreciated at the time.