" The two apes were loosely chained together by the wrist as they entered the room to appear before the Presidential Commission.Air Force Officer's Club - Anchorage, Alaska:The film opened, in early November, 1950, inside a snowbound Air Force Officers Club in Anchorage, Alaska (outside the blustery temperature was 25 F degrees below zero), where a few of the film's major characters were introduced as they gambled at a game of cards, in particular:Captain Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey), an AF military pilot, highly competent, level-headed, tough-as nails, and charming, he film's hero figureLt.Malcolm informed him about their real mission - to locate a hydro-electric dam: "The dam is pretty much intact.Jason crashed through the observation windows between Lab One and Lab Two, and in the mass confusion, everyone fled, except for Professor Lowe.She pulls on the beaded chain around her own neck while admitting that she really wants the horses' coachman, and not the horses - she rationalizes that "he'd be miserable without the horses":Baron: So much heart and so little sense.