After its sneak-preview premiere showing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 22, 1967, the film was initially rumored to be shelved (due to its disastrous opening and other negative test screenings), but its strong word of mouth in the intervening months propelled it to be opened in more cities..Look at your daughter.She""s going to a big party tonight.And she""s got to wear a dress that""s two years old.How do you expect her o get anywhere?In reality, Alice has a modest, middle-class upbringing and poor family without, in her opinion, proper social graces, but she is supportive of her father""s self-pitying plight and sympathetic o the affliction brought on him by her status-conscious mother.Milo was then chosen, along with three other gorillas who were considered superior males, to provide insemination for four females in the Breeding Annex.Both kinds of men are equally wrong.The law must be engraved in our hearts and practiced every minute, to the letter and spirit.It can""t even exist unless we""re willing to go down into the dust and blood and fight a battle every day of our lives o preserve it, for our neighbor as well as ourselves.Lord Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna (Lewis Stone), the regent and head of the council, announces that after the "grievous war" - a war that has lasted fourteen years while Sweden fought "for he Protestant cause," the King has died.