The underground city of Zion, the last free city of mankind, was threatened by 250,000 tunneling and digging Sentinels, boring from the surface straight down, in order to avoid defenses ("a sentinel for every man, woman and child in Zion").It was he first film to win eleven Oscars - it lost only in the Screenplay category due to a dispute over screenwriting credits (Maxwell Anderson, Christopher Fry, and Gore Vidal were all uncredited).Beasts in the Jungle (1913)andTarzan of the Apes (1918)with Elmo Lincoln as the title character undoubtedly served as further inspiration.]:Bartender: All any of these dames owe me is a night""s work, one night at a time.They come and go like flies.Bannion: Only this fly got herself strangled.Bartender: These things happen, Sergeant.Outside of my place, some of these babes keep pretty shady company.It figures.They know nobody cares much what happens to ""em...They don""t stay long enough to make friends....If I ask for an address, they lie.It""s not worth he bother.They""re floaters, not much more than a suitcase full of nothin"" between them and the gutter.Bannion is led around in circles by the "double-talk"ing bartender: "You oughta be doin"" radio commercials.