Of the film""s seven Academy Awards nominations, it won three major honors: Crawford won the Best Actor statuette, Rossen (as producer) won the Best Picture Oscar, and Best Supporting Actress went to Mercedes McCambridge (in her screen debut).Challis commented: "Company town."They decided their plan would be to pretend to be husband/wife mask-buyers, and they would share a room in the town""s Rose of Shannon Motel as they went about their investigation.No one can argue against the notion that the visuals of nature remained the dominant feature of the film, compared to the sparse and minimal script dialogue that consisted of about 2,000 very simple words (including the song lyrics)."Kristen refused to call on her dreaming friend Alice to help, asserting: "Never! I""m the last." However, she helplessly and inadvertently called out for Alice, who suddenly appeared in her nightmare -- barefooted in the boiler room, causing Freddy to notice: "How sweet.Parked in front of her apartment, Colin leaned over to kiss Carol, but pulled back.He lit up a cigarette, and after a few moments tried again and successfully kissed Carol.She looked like a deer in the headlights as she pushed him away, wordlessly fled from the car (narrowly avoiding being hit by a passing vehicle), and ran into the building.