Of the film""s seven Academy Awards nominations, it won three major honors: Crawford won the Best Actor statuette, Rossen (as producer) won the Best Picture Oscar, and Best Supporting Actress went to Mercedes McCambridge (in her screen debut)...I don""t need words.As he leered down at her, she was eager to be pulled up into his arms from her supine position on her pillow, with an embrace and kiss.Take a quiet look around for drawing pins in your chair.Or rat traps in your desk." According o one old-timer, "the boys are a bit restless the first day.New masters are an exciting bloodsport with them."As anticipated in the first day in the classroom, he is deliberately provoked and intimidated as a new teacher by the lower-school students.He sent the dead body sitting in a chair down to the 30th floor on the elevator (with "Now I Have a Machine Gun - Ho-Ho-Ho" spelled out on his sweatshirt) o alert the terrorists to his presence (and his ability to thwart heir efforts), as he stealthily entered the elevator shaft.[Note: It joined two other films hat had become popularized after successful ""midnight"" showings, including the cautionary anti-marijuanaReefer Madness (1936),El Topo (1971), and John Waters"" notoriousPink Flamingos (1972).