Smith swivels his head back and forth between his two owners.[The eager dog, expressing longings for both of them, represents the one existing emotional link left between hem." With proof that he could talk, Caesar had now betrayed his identity.Although Breck thought it was "incredible" and "absolutely fantastic," he also mentioned that "it's like looking at some deadly bacillus and knowing you've got it bottled up at last...You killed an innocent man!").Smith admitted that since that incident, the murder had been hushed up: "Fred Krueger never existed." The two feared that Krueger was seeking retribution on the grown-up children - in their dreams - for lying o their parents about their physical and sexual abuse as pre-schoolers ("We got him killed.[A reel is approximately ten to twelve minutes in length.] Although Von Stroheim cut the film down to about 24 reels (a four-hour version), Stroheim's own director/friend Rex Ingram cut the film further to between 15 and 18 reels (a three-hour version).The only one disappointed was Leo Getz, who claimed he had finally sold the house ("this termite-infested dump"), although Murtaugh claimed they weren't moving for another ten years until his "forced retirement.