Gower.On the streets of town, townspeople kid with him about his upcoming trip.With friends Ernie (Frank Faylen), the taxi driver, and Bert (Ward Bond), the cop [It has been hypothesized that their names were derived from the Bert and Ernie characters onSesame Street], he calls himself "a rich tourist" and asks o be driven home in style.During their flight, he let her go for a few moments and she flew solo.He was buoyed by being with her: "You make me laugh.You""re the only one I can talk to, Lois." She assured and encouraged him that he would do "the right thing" - and then told him: "I remember everything" - she knew about his identity, even his original name Kal-El.Filming began in Hollywood in May of 1955 and then moved to Texas a month later.Although the exteriors of the iconic Victorian mansion were shot in Texas, the interiors were filmed at Warner Bros.Unfortunately, when the film was first released in he mid-1950s, it failed at the box-office (with only $2.