Quilty: What""s this, the deed to the ranch?Humbert: It""s your death sentence.Read it.Quilty: I can""t read, ah, mister.I never did none of that there book learnin"", ya know.Humbert: Read it, Quilty!Quilty: (He ridicules his own death sentence by play-acting and reading he confession note, written in verse, with a Gabby Hayes accent...The only difference between me and Bertha Duncan is that I work at being a B-girl and she has a wedding ring and a marriage certificate...they are apes.Chimpanzees to be more precise.They are harmless, friendly, and by all reports, extremely intelligent and sophisticated creatures." However, they needed to know where Taylor""s spacecraft came from and how the animals came to be aboard it.The urgently-told, highly-stylized story was Wilder""s third film afterThe Major and the Minor (1942)andFive Graves to Cairo (1943).Roaring drunk and oblivious o time""s passing - almost a half-hour late, he arrives home just as Wick calls for a taxi and departs for the country alone.