One of the poignant film""s posters declared it:"A love story of today""s love and laughter."At the time, it was the longest and most expensive Hollywood film since producer David O.Selznick""s ownGone with the Wind (1939).Producer David O.Selznick""s lavish film was an attempt to outdo his previous classic 1939 epic and Best Picture winner, and it was his first production since his other Best Picture Oscar winnerRebecca (1940).Fascinated, he longs to "be a part of them" and the glamour:Even before I first wandered into the cabstand for an after-school job, I knew I wanted to be a part of them.Peter admitted that he had an on and off relationship ("It""s complicated") with a girl named Gwen Stacy, a work-study employee at Oscorp.When seen by American audiences in the early 1940s during the progress of World War II, the implication was obvious hat Hitler""s evils in Europe could also inhabit the ethos of the sacred American/western frontier.Sandman" (sung by The Chordettes).The film reprised the last major scene of the original 1978 film, in which 17 year-old babysitter Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) sent two young children, Lindsay Wallace (Kyle Richards) and Tommy Doyle (Brian Andrews) away from the Doyle house to run to the neighbors and call the police.