The unhappily-married female told him: "Some men, once they get a whiff of it, they trail you like a hound.Instead of the ultra-violence typical of other outlaw films, the screenplay (William Goldman""s first screenplay - he also authoredThe Great Waldo Pepper (1975)andMarathon Man (1976)) and the direction of George Roy Hill focused on the endearing mis-adventures of the bandits/heroes, using impudent slapstick comedy, conventional Western action, contemporary music, and humorous dialogue o characterize the past and irreverently poke fun at typical western film cliches.At that moment, the Southern gold-digging, charming playboy Shelby Carpenter (Vincent Price) enters the apartment, claiming hat he has "hardly slept a wink since it happened.Electro personally challenged Spider-Man at the power-plant site with its vast towering network of giant Tesla coils:I designed this power grid." The governor""s chief aide, MacDonald, sympathized with the apes, claiming their offenses were only minor, and that a recent incident in which an ape killed its master was due to "severe provocation.