[Note: It was the only film that brought together Swedish star Greta Garbo (in one of her earliest sound films) and John Barrymore, nicknamed "The Great Profile.Rhodes threatened to evacuate the "rotting, stinking sewer" and leave the scientists there, but Dr.Logan retaliated: "They have you in a hopeless situation, strategically.You""re lost...unless you can make them behave," and he spoke of "progress" in keeping the zombies in check and controlling them.As he rides on his horse and approaches Rock Ridge, the music swells - he passes by the Count Basie band on the dusty plains (Count Basie has an uncredited cameo as he plays "April in Paris" on a white piano with his jazz band).The Dust-Bowl period is effectively evoked, although the loose adaptation is also an inaccurate and fictionalized retelling of history.Nancy also told her that the man in her dreams was "real."During a group therapy session with the seven troubled adolescents, Phillip interjected that the groups"" dreams were a "group psychosis, sort of a mellow mass hysteria" - they had all dreamt of Freddy, even before meeting each other.