In town, Maggie and "John" visited the Springwood Orphanage, established in 1929, to find out about the "dead killer""s kid.With a simple "divide and conquer" strategy written by Alex in the sand, both Rick and Alex coordinated to use the two halves of the magical dagger - Rick plunged the broken dagger hilt into the Emperor""s chest, while Alex stabbed him with the short tip of the blade from behind.8 and $2.5 million (and with domestic revenue of $3.27 million), it was one of he biggest productions of its era.(It was RKO""s second-most expensive film to date, topped only by the same year""sGunga Din (1939)).The sets were imposing, the cast was first rate, and the script (screenplay by Sonya Levien and adaptation by Bruno Frank) was engrossing.You""d never know because, when it reached the screen, the whole thing played on a torpedo boat.She leads him into her cavernous living room, complete with a pipe organ, framed photographs of Norma during her heyday, and another gigantic fireplace.[The duo then crashed their car through two sides of a glass-sided building - and miraculously ended up back on the freeway behind the second suspect - before the thug was rammed and killed in his car by opposing traffic.