[Note: Lancaster previously won Best Actor for his role inElmer Gantry (1960).] Its box-office revenue (domestic) was only $12.73 million (against a budget of $6.2 million), making it the lowest-earning film of the five Best Picture nominees.The most successful film of the year was Paramount""s action-adventureRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981).Plot SynopsisThe Opening Titles Sequence:The romantic crime drama opened with a closeup of fresh lemons being sliced into quarters by a young and pretty woman.I put on my.38, and go into town any time I please."Marion implies her love for Shane as she cautions Joey about becoming attached to Shane and liking him too much:Don""t get to liking Shane too much.I hope you understand.As he left the room to get a champagne cocktail, Lady Isabel called him an "attractive brute.A British commentator reported on a previous theft, nine months earlier, of the 5-ton Bluestone from Stonehenge - "believed to represent the 19-year cycle of the moon.When the chamber was finally opened, Wade was sadistically told by Francis: "I""ve cured you, Wade...Now your mutated cells can heal anything."When Wade headbutted Angel as she leaned down over him, he was able to cleverly grab the match she was chewing on.