The gang""s car screeches away with Verna and Ma into the darkness of the night.Pursued by a police car with its siren wailing, Cody swings into the San-Val Drive-In Theatre to escape.Balderston.) The first film version of the novel was an early German silent film,Nosferatu: A Symphony in Terror(1922), an unauthorized adaptation of Stoker""s novel directed by expressionist F.Outraged, Mark whirled around when Freddy dropped down to his level - he now took the form of his super-hero, the Phantom Prowler, threatening: "Time to die, you scar-faced limp-dick!" He blasted Freddy full of holes (showering confetti from his body) with two futuristic pistols.[Kit has illusions of his own grandiosity and mythic status, even at this early stage in the film.] Holly fantasizes about how she comforts Kit, (in a surrealistic image, he lies in bed decorated from behind with peacock feathers and next to her catfish that is gasping for breath), while wearing angelic white robes and coming o him in the middle of the night:And as he lay in bed, in the middle of the night, he always heard a noise like somebody was holding a seashell against his ear.Although Gilbert""s career star was fading, Garbo insisted that he play the male lead role (although Laurence Olivier had been the original choice).