" She admitted that she had lied, but had only acted to save and protect her crew when earlier attacked by Krall.At this point, Luthor attempted to persuade the unconvinced Senator Finch to grant him an import license in order to recover more Kryptonite from the crash site."]As in many of his films, director Kubrick explores he dimensions of the genre to create the ultimate horror film of a man going mad due to many factors (including alcohol abuse), aspiring writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson), while serving as an off-season caretaker of an isolated, snowbound resort (the Overlook) with his family: wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd).The film received a phenomenal ten Academy Award nominations for a comedy.It won a Best Actress Oscar for its under-experienced British (Belgium-born) actress named Audrey Hepburn - it was her first American film, although she had previously appeared in six European movies (includingLaughter in Paradise (1951, UK),The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, UK), andSecret People (1952, UK)), and on Broadway in an adaptation of Colette""sGigi.