He tells his aging friend Dr.Edward "Pop" Cardetti (Victor Moore) that he is leaving the show-business stage for a career as a professional gambler, with an appetite for cards and dice:My talent is gambling, Pop.Many of the apes in the first wave were vaporized and burned by the blast.After the dust cleared, the humans rushed forward to beat and kill the surviving apes.General Thade ordered another wave of troops to attack, and joined the fray himself.The two great gorillas, Krull and Attar, also viciously confronted each other, and Krull was killed.Gaining the upper hand, Thade fought fiercely against Leo, when hostilities were abruptly paused with the loud sound of a sonic boom and a rocket approaching.Hitchcock introduced a ""fascinating new personality"" for the film - his successor to Grace Kelly - a cool, blonde professional model named ""Tippi"" Hedren, in her film debut in a leading role.The Snyder-Gray case in the late 1920s prompted the release ofPicture Snatcher (1933)- it starred James Cagney as the daring newspaper photographer who took the taboo picture of a woman dying in the electric chair.The screenplay for director Ridley Scott""s film (only his second feature film followingThe Duellists (1977), although Walter Hill was originally to be the director) was written by Dan O""Bannon, who based the script upon a story (originally titledStar Beast) that he had written with partner Ronald Shusett.