The cast names and credits moved upwards and appeared at odd angles over the eyeball.However, the final credit: "Directed by Roman Polanski" moved in a straight horizontal line (from right o left) and cut across the eyeball - similar to Luis Bunuel""s ""eyeball-cutting"" scene with a razor inUn Chien Andalou (1929)." Semple complains back: "Can I help it if my uncle didn""t like me?...Shut up! It""s too late now and you""re a nuisance."In a third scene, within theNew York Mailnewspaper office, news editor MacWade has assembled reporters and photographers o criticize them (calling them "imbecilic stoops") for not having a front-page story and angle - after three days - on the newly-rich Semple heir in town (the "corn-fed bohunk"): "What does he think about? How does it feel to be a millionaire? Is he gonna get married? What does he think of New York?" They have all been hindered by Cobb, who has kept Deeds "under lock and key.The film is driven by Mankiewicz"" witty, cynical and bitchy screenplay - through the character of Addison DeWitt, Mankiewicz represented his point of view and opinions about show business.Joey yelled after them as they left: "Come back here again, and you""ll find out what""s gonna happen to ya.It was drastically edited and recut by the studio before its theatrical release.The film was a dark, mean, claustrophobic and unappealing prison space drama.Nominated for one Academy Award (with no win): Best Visual Effects.With a production budget of $50 million, and box-office revenues of only $55.5 million (domestic) and $160 million (worldwide).BackgroundThe African Queen(1951) is the uncomplicated tale of two companions with mismatched, "opposites attract" personalities who develop an implausible love affair as they travel together downriver in Africa around the start of World War I.