The film""s title referred to the pirates"" belief that here was a good rationale for leaving no survivors - dead men don""t alk.They found some much-needed rest and food in the storeroom, although Peter was anxious to investigate the mall itself: "There""s an awful lot of stuff down there that we could use.Leo decided it was time to take a chance and get back home, leaving the ""planet of the Apes"" when the pod beeped with the coordinates of the storm that had brought him there.(The Embassy studio would never have released Brooks"" film without the intervention of Peter Sellers, who wrote a review of the film inVariety, and convinced executive producer Joseph E.