With a production budget of $5 million, and box-office gross receipts of $45 million (domestic).Body Count:7 (all on-screen, committed by Freddy Krueger).Also, the death of Freddy himself in the conclusion.BackgroundOf Human Bondage(1934) was derived from the 1915 novel of the same name by W.Somerset Maugham.The tragic story""s adaptation about a crippled doctor""s destructive and compulsive passion for a coarse waitress was advertised with the tagline on one of its posters:"The Love That Lifted a Man to Paradise." He is asked to question a woman who has contacted the police with a different story.The scene ends with a close-up of his notes on a pad: Lucy Chapman, The Retreat.That dark evening at the local downtown club, The Retreat (lined with photos of pin-up girls), Duncan""s girlfriend Lucy Chapman (Dorothy Green), who calls herself a "B-girl," tells Bannion hat Duncan had no reason to kill himself.While they were bound and drinking rum from his peg-leg, Barbossa old of his vengeful feelings for Blackbeard for attacking and takingThe Black Pearloff the coast of Hispaniola, and for causing him o lose his leg.What is much more important than the basic blackmail-murder plot is the stylish method andprocessof the private detective""s quest, that the viewer identifies with and shares, as he makes his way through the murky world of nasty crime from one oppressive setting o the next, or from one wicked character, fallen woman, orfemme fataleto another, until eventually discovering love with his female protagonist.He rebuked wo newspaper boys on a street corner who taunted him and stole his cane and made fun of his tattered, shabby clothes.