It would take many decades for the film to be hailed as one of the best ever made.Filled with hilarious sight gags and perfectly timed stunt work, the chase comedy was written and directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, and filmed with a huge budget for its time ($750,000 supplied by Metro chief Joseph Schenck).] As he was being extracted and rescued by IMF cohorts, including Hanaway""s team leader Jane Carter (Paula Patton) and newly-promoted high-tech wizard Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Hunt risked the mission by backtracking to search for his intel source and fellow prisoner Bogdan (Miraj Grbic).They are walked by the large tread-wheeled, bright red Sno-Trac: "The Sno-Cat operates very much like a car and it won""t take you very long to get the hang of it.Ethan feared for Julia""s life when he learned that one of Davian""s men was told by Julia""s brother that she worked at the Virginia Regional Hospital.