(Additional dialogue was added to the screenplay by novelist James Hilton and Robert Benchley and over a dozen other uncredited scriptwriters.Romero""s choice of a black lead actor was due to his low budget, but was still revolutionary - the character was the first African-American to play the heroic lead role in a horror film.Its two best scenes are the opening brainwashing sequence staged for POWs as a garden club party, and the climactic finale during a political convention in Madison Square Garden (at its original location - 8th Ave.Rapunzel betrayed the group to Prince Charming and the princesses were captured.Rapunzel and Charming shared a long kiss together, revealing that they were in love with each other, and that he was planning on having Rapunzel as his new Queen of Far, Far Away.The R-rated Paramount Pictures film followed the dual stories of an aging, small-time hood and a struggling oyster-bar waitress both living in the same, soon-to-be-torn-down apartment building just off the Boardwalk in the casino town of the film""s title.