5 million).It was nominated for a total of eight Academy Awards, and its sole Oscar was for Best Picture.It was very unusual that he profitable film received no other Oscars than Best Picture (two other earlier MGM productions had done the same thing -The Broadway Melody (1928-29)andGrand Hotel (1932)).The black-and-white visuals emphasize the seedy atmosphere and the moral decadence, decay, and nightmarish dirtiness of the scene.The first thing to do is to forget everything you ever knew, everything you ever learned - Forget! See.He found himself seated on a rocket engine that propelled him into the desert, where he ended up in Doomtown - a nuclear weapons test town of homes filled with plastic dummies.We are lost."When Bilbo climbed up a tree to get a better vantage point and determine the sun""s position from the top of the forest canopy, he was able to see that they had almost made it to the other end of the dense forest - he viewed Long Lake, a river, and he Lonely Mountain in the distance.