Mendez recommended: "Let them return in peace...to wherever they live," but Kolp disagreed, and organized scout parties to follow them to their Ape City camp "so thatwecan exterminatethem".- A married acquaintance has told her, ""Whatever you do, dearie, don""t get married."" Warned as strongly by the ladies of the street against their profession.Brutalized by her father, she creeps around, doomed o having a futile and tragic existence: "In every group there is one, weaker than the rest - the butt of uncouth wit or ill-temper.He quickly scurries away, jumping into a basket on the edge of a cliff.(The basket is part of an elevator/pulley apparatus affixed to the mountainside, attached to ropes on a winch.They were assaulted all along the way by Orcs, although Legolas and Tauriel efficiently eliminated the attackers enroute.The much-lauded, powerful and haunting ""buddy"" war film, from a screenplay by Deric Washburn, was released in the same year as three other Vietnam War films:Hal Ashby""sComing Home (1978)Sidney Furie""sThe Boys in Company C (1978)Ted Post""sGo Tell the Spartans (1978)There was a flood of films critical of the American involvement in Vietnam following 1975 when the war officially ended - and this film appeared as one of the most controversial.