""In its awards year with competitorsThe African Queen (1951),A Place in the Sun (1951),An American in Paris (1951), andA Streetcar Named Desire (1951)that received most of the accolades and awards,The Day the Earth Stood Stilldid not receive any nominations - not unusual for a sci-fi film....HERE""S TO ANOTHER, 44 (handwritten), THE SECURITY PACIFIC BANK." [Behind him visible through his window, a construction crew is demolishing a building.] After realizing she has snooped into his mail, he is painstaking about remaining private: "As of today, my mail will go to a post-office box with a combination on it and no keys.This film, directed by Mark Sandrich (who directed five of the dance team""s films - see * below), was thefourthof nine films that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared in for RKO (between 1933 and 1939), although their first film pairing in 1933 was not top-billed and very minor.He then stabbed a large serrated Bowie hunting knife into the side of Cort""s head while he was driving(# 13 death)- and the camper flipped onto its side and caught fire." Zaius described how the militaristic, bullying Ursus was poised to go on "a rampage of conquest," and as Minister of Science, he was obligated to join Ursus to find if life existed in the Forbidden Zone - something that might be a threat to simian survival and innocence.