His wife refuses to take him seriously, laughing at his manufactured stories: "You read too many books and see too many movies.One of the film""s posters emphasized:"Doyle is bad news - but a good cop."The film""s raw script was based on Robin Moore""s best-selling book of the same name about the ruthless, real-life adventures of idiosyncratic Harlem special narcotics squad officers Eddie Egan (the Doyle character) and Sonny Grosso (the Russo character) - both have small cameo roles in the film and served as technical advisers for the film.The fake documentary filmIngagi (1930), a successful exploitation film set in the Congo jungle, also must have influencedKing Kong""s making with its giant gorillas and native women being sacrificied to an ""ape god"".Although resistant and belligerent ("You made me feel like an asshole out there"), the stressed-out Miguel was reluctantly given a hypodermic sedative by Sarah, and she recommended that he be removed from active duty ("He""s over the edge, he""s turning into jello"), but she was met with resistance.