Franklin opted not to carry out his orders on the baby chimp, and gave the choice to Will.Will brought the chimp home and began raising him in his house.Will""s father Charles Rodman (John Lithgow), a former "beloved music teacher" in SF, was suffering from Alzheimer""s Disease, and required daily home health-care aid from Nurse Irena (Chelah Horsdal).Immediately, his Terra-Cotta Army crumbled, exploded, and turned back to dust.Ming celebrated in victory and hailed: "The Emperor is dead" - before he and his troops also reverted to clouds of dust.g., the feeding machine), television screens (i.e., the Big Brother screen - pre-dating George Orwell""s book1984, written/published in 1949), and Chaplin""sactualvoice is heard singing an imaginary, nonsense song of gibberish.Director William Wellman""s pre-code, box-office smash, shot in less than a month at a cost of approximately $151,000, was released at approximately the same time as another classical gangster film -Little Caesar (1930/31)that starred Edward G.There, powerful archer Mathayus was about to kill Memnon when the young boy was apprehended by Memnon""s guards and brought into the courtyard.