It was originally started as a film called Stowaway in the 1930s, planned for Paulette Goddard, but production was never completed. This resulting film, created nearly 30 years after its inception, was a critical failure and grossed US$2,000,000 (domestic) from a US$3,000,500 budget. However, critics such as Tim Hunter and Andrew Sarris, as well as the poet John Betjeman, viewed the film among Chaplin's best works, and Chaplin (although unhappy with the critical and audience reaction) considered it his greatest film at the end of his life.[citation needed]