The tale set in a hot, rainy and sweaty French Indo-China (during a period of colonialism) told of a volatile love-triangle between a wise-cracking Saigon prostitute on the run, a brutish, virile and lustful rubber plantation owner, and he lovely dignified upper-class newly-wed wife of an engineer-surveyor.That dam is the only option." Dreyfus insisted: "We need that power to get the radio transmitter working.It""s our only chance of reaching the outside world.We have to find other survivors...We can""t afford any more casualties.We founded this place, you and I, on the idea that power would lead us back to he life we once had.If we can""t stick together, maybe we can""t survive." Malcolm begged for and was allowed three days time to ake a small team into the forest, and try to work out a reconciliatory, peaceful agreement with the lead intelligent ape so that the humans could access the hydroelectric dam in the apes"" territory:Malcolm: Give me three days.Also, the film""s wonderful musical score by Alfred Newman is unforgettable.Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, and English actor Robert Newton were all considered for the role eventually played by British stage actor Laurence Olivier.It was necessary to make another Freddy movie (with a Hansel and Gretel fairy-tale subtext) to keep the killer""s evil imprisoned within the story.With an ensemble cast, the low-budget R-rated, Best Picture-winning hybrid film viewed a dysfunctional family""s angst and crisis in suburbia.