Donning a disguise as spectacled Czech Pavel Sobotka, Ethan arranged for a flight to Shanghai, where he later appeared in the Feng Shan Apartments, at unit 1406.Exhausted, he finally reached the Fortress, now desolate, cold, dark and silent.Needy and desperate, he called out to his father and mother in vain, wishing they could hear him in the echoing space.[The film deliberately contrasts appearance with reality - the normally-romantic, glamorous setting of canals in Venice is really the setting for the mundane collection of garbage.Villainous arch-nemesis and career criminal Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) was first introduced (off-screen) speaking to frail and wealthy widow Gertrude Vanderworth (Noel Neill, who portrayed Lois Lane in 78 episodes of the TV showAdventures of Supermanfrom 1953-1958).At an Alaskan roadside diner, Clark was forcibly engaged in an altercation with a local bullying trucker named Rocky (Pepper Martin) who called him "four-eyes," and he was hit from behind and sent through a glass window frame.