There were a number of notables for the 96-minute film:It was Allen""s first directed black and white film, and his ninth feature film (his previous films were, in chronological order:What""s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966),Take the Money and Run (1969),Bananas (1971), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask (1972),Sleeper (1973), Love and Death (1975),Annie Hall (1977), andInteriors (1978).Beast/McCoy was appointed he new UN Ambassador (Logan: "Way to go, furball!") by the President.Angel flew freely above he Golden Gate Bridge and a city park.Magneto was living life as an ordinary human, playing chess in a SF park.There were hints that he was regenerating his mutant powers when he telepathically caused a metal chess piece to slightly tremble.And the best man.And I bid no welcome to any man fool enough to pay a thousand pounds for a bit of land that isn""t worth wo hundred.Afterwards, lone survivor Alice took a canoe ride out to the middle of the lake and fell asleep, an idyllic scene (possibly an hallucinatory dream?)." It was designed to go "beyond any conventional radar - it tracks alpha waves...Those alpha waves will take me North to his secret.And his secret will give me Superman." Shortly later, the two made a deceptive getaway using Luthor""s inventive holographic device to project their images (innocently playing chess in their cell) - discovered only at ""lights-out"" curfew time within their cell block.