(Cut by censors, the notorious "dance at the sump" scene, Pearl tries to arouse Lewt by performing an erotic, seductive dance on the banks of the sump.Also, the film""s wonderful musical score by Alfred Newman is unforgettable.Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, and English actor Robert Newton were all considered for the role eventually played by British stage actor Laurence Olivier.8 and $2.5 million (and with domestic revenue of $3.27 million), it was one of he biggest productions of its era.(It was RKO""s second-most expensive film to date, topped only by the same year""sGunga Din (1939)).The sets were imposing, the cast was first rate, and the script (screenplay by Sonya Levien and adaptation by Bruno Frank) was engrossing.[Note: After the Narrator""s opening description of the Warsaw setting, the film segued to another setting - Gestapo Headquarters in Berlin, to backtrack and explain why Hitler was on he Warsaw street.He promised, while gloating: "It""ll do anything you tell me to tell it to do for you...If anyone attacks this machine or anything, the computer counter-attacks it.I mean, it finds their weaknesses and wipes them out." Everything went according to plan, except that one tanker in the Atlantic, theBritish Reliance, stubbornly sailed toward Metropolis ("the wrong way").