In the hold of the freighter, Riggs discovered that it was carrying human cargo - Chinese to be sold as cheap slave labor.Co-producers and directors Merian C.Cooper and Ernest B.Schoedsack (both real-life adventurers and film documentarians) conceived of the low-budget story of a beautiful, plucky blonde woman (Fay Wray) and a frightening, gigantic, 50 foot ape-monster as a metaphoric re-telling of the archetypal Beauty and the Beast fable.Bane strapped a restraint around Batman""s neck.Gordon located the truck holding the device, and jammed the trigger signal just as Talia, the "anonymous Gothamite," pressed the trigger on the detonator.Evil.Austin""s time-travel device was a psychedelically-painted VW convertible, which propelled him (in a parody ofBack to the Future) to his Swinging 60s London pad where a disco party was in progress.