Edmund was intrigued by the promise of attaining superiority over his brother.Edmund met up with Lucy (after she had reunited with Mr.Tumnus), realizing that he may have told the Queen important information (that later betrayed Mr.Tumnus) in exchange for candy.The two returned to tell the others about the wardrobe (Lucy: "It""s all in the wardrobe like I told you"), but Edmund stubbornly refused to admit his presence there, presumably to cover up his new acquaintanceship with the Queen: "I was just playing along.A shark fin-like object, Freddy""s four-bladed gloved hand that was slightly on fire, sliced through the surface of the water, headed for shore, and cut through the sand toward the castle.With a production budget of $230 million, and box-office gross receipts of $262 million (domestic) and $752.The cynical, film-noirish, war-time film was shot on location in the small, story-book town of Santa Rosa, California - a representative place of sacred, wholesome, middle-American values where dark corruption is hidden within a family.What remains of the film was directed by the ambitious, extravagant, stubborn and independent-minded Erich Von Stroheim - he spent nine months shooting the film and a total of fifteen months writing and editing it (from 1923-1924).