I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I wanted to mention it in class, but for some reason I didn’t.
Someone wondered aloud why Shad ‘O Rory’s character was changed from an Irishman into Nick Varner. I think the filmmakers gave him a german sounding name on purpose. Consider that it was during WWII, and germans were the “enemy” and “evil”. How fitting for the villain of the film to be german and own a vicious German shepherd. Does anyone else think that this is a possibility?