Most impressively, it became only the second movie in history to break the $500 million barrier in domestic box-office, the first being James Cameron""sTitanic (1997)with a domestic gross of $601 million.Through various methods of interrogation, including telepathy (thought projections), visual projections (on a giant wall behind the subject), painful traumatic hypnosis (physical/mental torture), or verbally-spoken words, they gained information.(The score by Carter Burwell prophetically pounds out the dark, solemn theme music behind the stark scene." Gene Wilder""s future wife Gilda Radner appears as a townswoman in the church scene, and Count Basie (as Himself) appears as the band-leader in the desert.