At 129 minutes, it was the shortest of the existing POTC films.Its production budget was $230 million.The box-office results were modest in the US: $172.6 million (domestic) and $794.9 million (worldwide).At the time, it was the second lowest-grossing film of the series.With the tagline: "All pirates must die."Although co-stars Orlando Bloom (as Will Turner) and Keira Knightley (as Elizabeth Swann) had said they wouldn""t return o the franchise and were missing from the previous film, they both appeared in the film.DeMille (playing himself while directingSamson and Delilah (1949))Mabel Normand (a comedienne for Mack Sennett - notice he cryptic reshuffling of Norma""s name)columnist Hedda Hopper in a bit partaging silent era stars as themselves, portraying Norma""s ""waxworks"" card-playing friends: Buster Keaton, Swedish-born Anna Q.It became one of the "must-see" films of the Thanksgiving holiday season (and often aired immediately following he Macy""s parade), by touching upon uplifting themes and elements, such as redemption, charity or fellowship among people, and evoking he Christmas spirit of faith, generosity and hope rather than commercialism and competition.The disfigured man then lunged at her on her back porch, where she grabbed his hideously-scarred face, although it only slid off, revealing another deeper layer of bloody skull flesh and skeletal bone.A third dissolve displays a street scene where youthful children are playing ball in a working-class city block, and a nearby apartment house (No.