The murder scene in San Francisco is investigated by a tough police detective named Nick Curran (Michael Douglas).Godfrey: It was because my real estate agent felt that the altitude would be very good for my asthma.Many earlier literary works echoed the giant ape or ""lost world"" theme, as in Arthur Conan Doyle""sThe Lost World (1912)and Edgar Rice Burroughs""The Land That Time Forgot (1918).The handsome riverboat is owned by formally-dressed John James King (Tom McGuire).Already moored at the dock is "the old steamer," a dilapidated boat named "Stonewall Jackson." The owner of the ancient Mississippi steamer is tough and brawny captain William Canfield (Ernest Torrence), better known as Steamboat Bill.To insure Harvey""s unharmed and safe release, Lily offered and sacrificed herself to the warlord, with her "word of honor" - and decided of her own "free will" to accompany Chang.