They keep the country clean.Besides, there""s a law against killin"" buzzards.Hud (uncaring): Man, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner.And that""s what I try to do.Sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.Homer: I don""t like to break the law in my place, Hud.Hud: Well, she ain""t gonna sit up and tell us herself.Hud wants to sell them before they can be condemned by government inspectors: "You gonna let them shoot your cows out from under you on account of a schoolbook disease?" Homer rejects selling them: "That would run the risk of starting an epidemic.8 and $2.5 million (and with domestic revenue of $3.27 million), it was one of he biggest productions of its era.(It was RKO""s second-most expensive film to date, topped only by the same year""sGunga Din (1939)).The sets were imposing, the cast was first rate, and the script (screenplay by Sonya Levien and adaptation by Bruno Frank) was engrossing." Her half-a-ton headstone had been vandalized from the grave site and replaced with a mutilated dead coyote on a cross of sticks, angering the graveskeeper.The apes scampered over rooftops, crashed through offices, saved a captured ape from an Animal Control van, and hurled manhole covers and parking meter poles at approaching police cars.