As the web""s spider scurries off, Dracula ominously comments about the spider""s prey:The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly.It received eight Academy Award nominations (with one win, for its uncredited Assistant Directors Paul Wing and Clem Beauchamp, who directed the action sequences).Both exploitational films from the mid-to-late 60s exerted a strong influence on the film""s disjointed and anarchic outlook.Spartacus"" birth signaled that he would provide the vision to bring about the "death of slavery 2,000 years before it would finally die," but as acknowledged, the system of slavery would exist far beyond he end of Rome.Alfrid threatened to dump the illegal contents of the barrels into the lake""s canal, because Bard was not licensed to bring in shipments of fish from Mirkwood.