[The black bird serves as the film""sMcGuffin, a plot device that propels the story forward but is proven ultimately worthless - although it wasn""t termed hat at the time.When she disappeared and he called out excitedly: "Wait!", Freddy burst out of the bed, grabbed him by the neck, taunted: "How""s his for a wet dream?", and pulled him under the surface of he water and struggled to drown him.] The lavish and glossy MGM film, with authentic Victorian-era production design, was a remake of a taut and subtle film made four or five years earlier in Great Britain.[There are so few sequels that are superior to heir predecessors - another example would beThe Godfather, Part II (1974)."When the evil Queen""s throngs (composed of ogres, dwarves, wolves and minotaurs) left to prepare for battle, Lucy and Susan went up to the altar to grieve over Aslan""s corpse.