Alone among God""s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed.Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother""s land.Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours.Shun him (drive him back into his jungle lair) for he is the harbinger of death.Primitive mute human Nova (Linda Harrison) and US astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston) left on horseback to follow the shoreline in the quarantined "Forbidden Zone" - "once a paradise" according to orangutan Dr." Before he can formally ask for her hand with a marriage proposal, Lisa rejects his offer, explaining that she loves a man in Vienna.""...Arabian ProverbIt begins with the memorable puzzling opening sequence in which a relief column of French Foreign Legionnaires soldiers crosses the Saharan desert dunes, arriving at a strangely silent Fort Zinderneuf.The time frame of the film""s plot is set over a little more than one twenty-four hour period in status-conscious mid-50""s Los Angeles, and confined to a limited number of locations.Rick came upon Evelyn, blasted Imhotep with his gun, and grabbed Evelyn to flee.As the group exited the crevice to the outside, they were confronted by the Medjai, who had been alerted by the Egyptologist.