Exhausted, he finally reached the Fortress, now desolate, cold, dark and silent.Needy and desperate, he called out to his father and mother in vain, wishing they could hear him in the echoing space.Although produced two years earlier than its release date, it was kept out of circulation by the apprehensive studio for wo years due to its pessimistic and somber message.The next day, the two partners were demoted to uniformed, beat-cop patrol officers, still arguing with each other over which wire was cut.One trivial item: the two central midgets Harry and Daisy Earles performed in brief roles inThe Wizard of Oz (1939): Daisy as a Munchkin villager and Harry as a member of the Lollipop Guild.In director John Guillermin""s inferior remakeKing Kong (1976), starring Jessica Lange, the great ape takes his last stand atop one of the owers of the World Trade Center.