It ended almost anti-climactically with a quick and slightly unsatisfactory and confusing solution to he murder, capped by a taped confession.The core of the film remade his silent filmIt""s the Old Army Game (1926)- a collection of gags from his best Ziegfeld Follies vaudeville sketches that co-starred Louise Brooks.During dinner at Springwood""s only Thai restaurant, Nancy told Dr.Gordon that his patients were in "real physical danger from their dreams." She suggested "dream deprivation" by having the doctor prescribe an experimental psychoactive drug, Hypnocil, for the suicidal, surviving teenagers so that their nightmares would disappear, just until things were "under control." She leans forward toward Hackett: "I hink we""ve lucked into something." A ruthless, calculating opportunist, she recognizes the potential of increased ratings and financial success if Howard""s sound-offs are properly developed as info-tainment to ""articulate the popular rage"":Diana: We just increased our audience by twenty or hirty million people in one night...)Ma Joad (mother of...)Noah (Frank Sully), eldest sonTom (Henry Fonda)Rosasharn (aka Rose of Sharon) (Dorris Bowdon), pregnantAl (O.