Director Griffith""s original budget of $40,000 (expanded o $60,000) quickly ballooned, so Griffith appealed to businessmen and other investors to help finance the film - that eventually cost $110,000! The propagandistic film was one of the biggest box-office money-makers in the history of film, partly due to its exorbitant charge of $2 per ticket - unheard of at the time.In the manager""s office after the game, Larry and Skip summarized that LaLoosh had walkedandstruck-out 18 players - both new league records.Rocky was urged to come outside, where Tommy delivered his ultimatum: "I""m challenging you to a fight - anytime, anyplace, anywhere.In the next nighttime scene, Clark""s team was covertly flown to their landing zone in Colombia, as Ritter wrote a communique to Cutter: "They""re in.The next lines of questioning were about how humans became dumb, and about Zira""s censored admission before the Commission about "dissecting" humans in the course of her work.