Top cast:Anna Q. Nilsson,Guy Coombs,J. Barstow Budworth
Director:Ilya Naishuller
Genre:History
Region:Netherlands
Year:2001
Storyline:e., Freddy's appearance in the bathtub and behind wallpaper, a bloody body-bag dragged down a school hallway, the ceiling levitation, a modified geyser of blood, Krueger's line: "I'm your boyfriend now," etc.Not a darn thing.Not where he comes from, what he makes, or what he makes making it.Only thing we know about him is his name, and you weren't too sure about that.Yet he walks in, and we hand him Kay....I want o know whether he's going to make her happy.Whether he's going o make a home for her, can he support her?"- Stanley's desire is to follow through on all that "old-fashioned rigmarole" including the lengthy "man-to-man" talk (a fireside "little chat") he has with Buckley about his financial prospects (three months before the nuptials), to determine if he can suitably support Kay; the interview is interminably long and boring- during the required meeting of the Banks to get o know the wealthy in-laws the Dunstans, Stanley and Ellie meet with Herbert or "Herbie" (Moroni Olsen) and Doris Dunstan (Billie Burke), who live in much more than a "shack"; Stanley admits (in voice-over) about the meeting: "We did more bare-faced lying in those few minutes than we had done in our entire lives"; he get-together in the Dunstan's living room ends when Stanley drinks too much Madeira (fortified wine from Portugal) and falls asleep upright on the couch in the midst of the discussion- in the scene of the Banks' party to announce the engagement (the guests routinely decline Stanley's pre-prepared martinis and order many other varieties of drinks), Stanley finds himself confined to the kitchen and is unable to deliver his prepared speech; he is advised about finances and his place in the proceedings: "Enjoy your minute in the limelight.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.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.