When the Sheik discovered that he was being trailed, the Boy pretended he just happened o be strolling by - and walked straight into the open door of one of the South Pacific Lines refrigerator cars next to the platform.The film opens on the hottest day of the summer of 1944.The narration reveals that the story takes place in the recent past, at the time of ""Laura""s"" death:I shall never forget the weekend Laura died.As British soldiers lined up to fire at Captain Jack who staggered around, the Mayor""s wife Frances (Zoe Ventoura) awoke from her slumber - also within the vault.The Commission was still suspicious that "the progeny of these apes could, in centuries to come, prove an increasing threat to the human race and conceivably end by dominating it.