" The one nicknamed ""Fat-Ass"" (Frank Medrano) is mercilessly teased by a leering Heywood: "This place ain""t so bad.[Note: Although the typical gangster role in the 30s had been romanticized, by the late 1940s, the gangster protagonist was more often portrayed as a bullying psychopath, as in this film.She makes no allowance for science.She thinks she has to cover the distance by sheer lung power."When Emma is finally told - after a long, calculated delay in the narrative - that her younger "spoiled" brother Charles ("the baby") is coming into town on Thursday, she ecstatically calls it "the most wonderful surprise" - it is the miraculous salvation that her daughter desired: "It""s just simply wonderful.The film was adapted and transformed into a Broadway play calledApplausein 1970, with Lauren Bacall (later replaced by Anne Baxter!) as Margo Channing." Breck, however, feared thousands of apes "burning with resentment, all waiting, waiting for an ape with enough intelligence, with enough will to lead them.