The band of vegetarian man-apes huddles protectively together in their cramped den for comfort and support - living and sleeping in fear.The hard-edged film""s 50""s Los Angeles hero (transplanted from New York), created by pulp novel writer Mickey Spillane, follows in the footsteps of other detective heroes from the pens of Raymond Chandler (Phillip Marlowe), Dashiell Hammett and James M.Mutt surmised: "Maybe the Nazca Indians thought thiswastheir god.You think this is the one from Akator?" Indy wondered: "Maybe the Spaniards found this skull along with all this other loot.Harry (reminiscing): Those June nights in England...Jane (remembering too): Moonlight on The Thames.Harry: Dance, glass of champagne, sitting with real people and listening o the music.Jane: Real people? I wonder.Arlington: Well, at least the men are civilized.Jane: Does that make them any better? (Chetah is seen smoking a cigarette and Jane laughs.) There""s your civilization for you.BackgroundSwing Time(1936) is often named as the best or most popular musical/romance of dancing duo Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire (they only made ten films together, nine for RKO Radio Pictures in the 1930s), rivaled only byTop Hat (1935).