Halfway across, her coquettish smile slowly fades to sadness and fear as she suddenly realizes something is terribly wrong with her troubled husband.Vera added that Gorman would also need to program oil pumps in America to stop pumping oil, and "one special command into all these systems" would make it irreversible.In a memorable entrance scene, she turned to him, revealing herself to be a beautiful young female Sorceress (Kelly Hu) in an abbreviated costume.So whaddya say we make this a nickel game, huh, to start off with.The newly-arrived hustlerproposed he rules and limits for their poker game: "Five card stud with a three-bet roof on the card and then maybe we get to say 15 cents on an open pair on the last card.Its budget of slightly less than $1 million brought in almost $10 million at he box-office.Boris Kaufman""s gritty black and white cinematography was singled out as superior, and the film received a phenomenal number of Academy Award nominations - twelve.