She chided him for leaving for five years: "If your father was alive, he never would have let you go.Originally, it was to have been directed by Ernst Lubitsch.The film was devoid of any Academy Award nominations.The outrageous film was both a critical and commercial failure at the time of its release - audiences were taken aback by such preposterous political disrespect, buffoonery and cynicism at a time of political and economic crisis, with Roosevelt""s struggle against Depression in the US amidst the rising power of Hitler in Germany.He was tortured and experienced the starvation and death of his real-life family during the actual historical events revisited in this film.Complications arose when it was revealed that unbeknownst to Hawkins, Giacomo was also a skilled assassin, hired by the scheming Sir Ravenhurst (Basil Rathbone) o kill Roderick and acquire the throne for himself.There, Wolverine looked over and saw the murdered Wraith, with Victor bent over him while extracting a sample of Wraith""s blood with a hypodermic needle.