Principal filming occurred in heir area, at the Biltmore Estate, constructed in the late 1800s (Gilded Age) for George W.What are you going to do now?Ben: I was going to go upstairs for a minute.Guests: I meant with your future, your life.Ben: Well, that""s a little hard to say.Ben is hesitant, embarrassed by all the attention, and lacking in social graces.By the family swimming pool, Ben receives words of advice from Mr.McGuire (Walter Brooke), a family friend, in one of the most memorable lines from film history:Mr.McGuire:I just want to say one word o you - just one word.Ben: Yes sir.Mr.McGuire: Are you listening?Ben: Yes I am.Mr.McGuire:""Plastics.""Ben: Exactly how do you mean?Mr.McGuire: There""s a great future in plastics.Think about it.Will you think about it?Ben: Yes I will.Mr.McGuire: Shh! Enough said.That""s a deal.[In fact, history would prove Mr.McGuire""s advice o be prescient and wise!] Sweating and unable to take any more badgering and unwanted advice, feeling generally repugnant of the upper middle-class values that surround him, Ben realizes that he is totally estranged from the financial measures of value that are being thrust upon him for his future.The 1938 Warner Bros.film is expensively mounted (at $2 million, it was the studio""s largest budgeted film), and beautifully photographed in glorious and brilliant, three-strip Technicolor (Warners"" first use of color) by cinematographers Sol Polito and Tony Gaudio, especially in the Sherwood Forest sequence [filmed in Bidwell Park in Chico, California] and other scenes of costumed pageantry....A bunch of us parents tracked him down after they let him out.We found him in an old abandoned boiler room where he used to take his kids...Took gasoline, poured it all around the place, and made a trail of it out the door.Then lit the whole thing up and watched it burn.But he can""t get you now.He""s dead, honey, because Mommy killed him."She unwrapped the dirty bundle, displaying Fred""s gloved and rusted blade knives that she had saved.