In the film""s notorious double-impalement scene, the nude lovers lying on each other were speared together like shish-kabob - the bloody spear-head struck the wood floor beneath heir bed""s mattress.Speechless and frozen in fear, Elliott with enormous eyes calls out in a stuttering whisper: "Mom, Mom, Mom, Michael, Michael, Mom.I told him that his demands were unreasonable.And so he left the University to work unhampered.He found what he needed elsewhere.Victor: Oh! The bodies of animals.Well, what are the lives of a few rabbits and dogs?Waldman: (leaning forward ominously) You do not quite get what I mean.The long-lasting effects of the film were dubbed "The Bambi Syndrome" by historian Ralph Lutts.In terms of Academy Awards, it was a three-time nominee with notable nods: Best Sound, Best Original Music Score, and Best Song (Love Is A Song)., and Flora Robson.A third film wasGreat Catherine (1968, UK), a slapstick comedy (based on George Bernard Shaw""s play) directed by Gordon Flemyng and starring Peter O""Toole, Zero Mostel and Jeanne Moreau.