"The deal was agreed upon, although the colonists kept Max""s vehicle - as collateral - to ensure that Max cooperated.(Otherwise, the unscrupulous editor ofSpycould uncover some titillating dirt about Tracy""s father Seth and his affair with a showgirl - Tina Mara.]The film received only two Academy Awards nominations without winning any Oscars: Best B/W Cinematography (Joseph Walker) in preliminary balloting, and Best Special Effects (Roy Davidson and Edwin C.They were told that Nancy""s pre-school gardener named Fred, who lived in the school""s basement, had "hurt" and sexually-abused 5 year-old Nancy ("his favorite of all") and other innocent children."Afterwards, Alice looked at the clippings that Mark had obtained, and focused on one about Amanda Krueger, Freddy""s distraught nun-mother, who had not committed suicide by hanging after Krueger""s trial (as the newspapers reported), but spent the remainder of her life in an asylum.