Africa.They quickly annihilated and destroyed enemy tanks and infantry; Patton watched through binoculars at a nearby outpost, and exclaimed that he had used Rommel""s own strategy against him in his book ""Infantry Attacks"":"Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!"However, Patton often ran into resistance from traditonal or conventional military leaders, such as General Omar Bradley (Karl Malden).His only source of escape and pleasure, other than nostalgia for the past, was secretively watching his neighbor Sally Matthews (Susan Sarandon, director Malle""s girlfriend at the time of filming) - a younger, cynical clam-bar waitress who ritualistically performed a sexy lemon-wash of herself at her window within his apartment""s view." Zaius cautioned: "Don""t look for it, Taylor.You may not like what you find." Zaius told chimpanzee Zira (Kim Hunter) that Taylor would soon find "his destiny." The opening credits played above Taylor and Nova riding along the beach, and the shocking conclusion (of the previous film), now abbreviated, in which Taylor dismounted to stare upwards, drop to his knees, and pound his fist into the sand: "Damn you all to hell!" (Note: the original was "Goddamn you all to hell"), at the sight of the spiked crown of a battered Statue of Liberty buried waist-deep in beach sand.He is led from the train into an ancestral past - to an open, single horse drawn carriage by a spritely, derby-hatted, pipe-smoking, elfin Michaeleen Oge Flynn (Barry Fitzgerald), the local taxi-cab driver, book-maker, and match-maker...Oh, you""ve torn your coat!" He turns angrily oward her and asks for her to disappear once and for all:Let""s play a game.