" She asked John: "Why are you calling me Nancy, John?" and he replied as her Lieutenant father, Mr.Thompson: "Why are you calling me John?" When she asked about Robert Englund and Freddy, he sternly but lovingly told her: "Freddy""s dead.Famed Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz (who had already directed many diverse film genres, includingThe Adventures of Robin Hood (1938),Angels With Dirty Faces (1938),Dodge City (1939),The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939),The Sea Hawk (1940),Casablanca (1942),Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), andThis is the Army (1943)) shaped this significant film in the genre.After its first release, Paramount Studios was so concerned about the misanthropic film""s unrelenting cynicism, anti-Americanism, and poor box-office that they unsuccessfully changed its name and rebranded it as "The Big Carnival.You may have he land, Mr.Thornton, for six hundred pounds.Michaeleen: Done!...Outbid, the dismayed and angered Danaher vows that Thornton will be his enemy: "I""ve got you down in my book.During a final standoff in the ferocious sandstorm, Mathayus stabbed Thorak in the abdomen, but as he died, he struck back and impaled Mathayus in the left thigh with the venom-dipped arrowhead.