Verna: Sure it""s smart, but what about me? What do I do for the next wo years?Ma: (with heavy innuendo) Same as ya did before he married you.The film, shot over a one month period in late 1954, is a masterpiece of cinematography, exhibited in the disorienting camera angles and unique and unconventional compositions of Ernest Laszlo.Not her, and not you." They would be dissected and killed if found speaking.As they rode off from Ape City, their horse was shot out from under them, and they were soon captured in a net.The famous director of westerns had already won Best Director Academy Award Oscars for three previousnon-Western films -The Informer (1935),The Grapes of Wrath (1940), andHow Green Was My Valley (1941).The unknown man entered into he nightmarish dream of 15 year-old Christina "Tina" Gray (Amanda Wyss) who was wearing a thin nightgown.