One of the film""s posters briefly and dramatically described each character:LUCY...Her husband""s money couldn""t buy her, nor another man""s love make her unfaithful!MITCH...Who gave his best friend the woman he wanted for his own!MARYLEE...Who couldn""t have Mitch, so she sought love when and where she could get it!KYLE...Who hid his secret behind a bottle and a hundred million dollars!The film""s tagline pronounced:The story of a family""s ugly secret and the stark moment that thrust their private lives into public view!The film included such sordid subjects as nymphomania, alcoholism, murderous jealousy and rage, phallic power and infertility, miscarriage, back-stabbing emotional blackmail, and illusory materialistic happiness.Jason confronted Burt, ripped off his arm, and threw him into a tree trunk (where his body was impaled on a thick tree branch and his face was bashed in, leaving a bloody circle on a carved smiley face)(# 4 death).Peter wrote out the Decay Rate Algorithm, his father""s calculation, and provided the equation o Connors.Marion in the same role that he played onstage (and in this version).It received three Academy Award nominations (with no wins): Best Actress (Garbo), Best Director (Clarence Brown) and Best Cinematographer (William H.The fleeing figure was hit by the front of a speeding second police car driven by Deputy Gary Hunt (Hunter von Leer).