The classic MGM, coming-of-age children""s film acquired four Academy Award nominations (Best Picture, Best Film Editing - Elmo Veron, and Best Screenplay - Marc Connolly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every) with Spencer Tracy taking home his very first Best Actor Oscar (he experienced back-to-back wins when he also won Best Actor the following year forBoys Town (1938)) for his heart-warming performance.HADDONFIELD, ILLINOIS.OCTOBER 31, 1988.HALLOWEEN.Some costumed school children raced to their school bus, excitedly anticipating a night of trick-or-treating.However, some of the eerie clocks, with simulated human animation, foreshadow he violence and bad behavior to come - an axeman chopping off a urkey""s neck, a hunter with a gun, a drunk, and a mother spanking her misbehaving child:a church tower bell "ding"-ing at the houra honeybee "buzz"-ing clockducks alternating their "quack"-inga mother bird "cuckoo"-ing with her three chicks in egg shellsa woodsman chopping a "gobble"-ing turkey""s necka hunter with a pop-gun shooting at a "peep"-ing yellow bird in a treea drunk "hiccupp"-ing from a windowa mother spanking the bare bottom of her "waa"-ing boy for spilling paintGeppetto""s stopwatch, with two beer drinkers "clink"-ing heir glass steins togetherGeppetto""s WishNow that it""s time for bed, Geppetto bids his puppet good night: "Little funny face.The sprawling post-war Technicolored spectacle followed the Lone Star State""s remarkable transition over the years from the hard-work of agrarian cattle-ranching to oil-industry production.Jack sought to survive with the help of astronomer Carina Smyth and Royal Navy sailor Henry in acquiring he legendary Trident of Poseidon.