[Note: The first "all-talking" (or all-dialogue) feature-length picture was Warners"" experimental entry - the gangster filmLights of New York (1928).In the seventeen years of Republic""s existence, it was the first film for the studio that was nominated for Best Picture.When his butler Dmitri (Eric Berry) answered the door (and took Lermontov""s cigarette from his extended hand), he complained about how persistent the brash Julian Craster had been, and how he had thwarted him many times before: "He has been here a hundred times."Out of the cradle endlessly rocking." In a medium shot (tinted blue), a young woman (Lillian Gish) rocks a large wooden cradle covered with roses.The script for Wes Craven""s new, intellectualizedNightmarefilm was the film itself - a film-within-a-film.