]Director Romero and co-writer John Russo acknowledged hat Richard Matheson""s 1954 novellaI Am Legend(adapted into the filmThe Last Man on Earth (1964)) was an inspiration for their apocalyptic sci-fi script...I gotta get out of here.I gotta find out what""s happening....My wife never held up a show in her life." Backstage are other actors and performers, he stage manager, and one actor in blackface.Still amusingly-dressed in his costume, Jerry runs out the back stage entrance into the alley, discovers his way across he street is blocked by the crowd on the sidewalk and the parade, and is labeled as Irish by one of the holiday marchers - a blue-uniformed veteran of the Civil War: "The Irish are all at the head of he parade as usual.Godzilla and King Kong actually faced off in the Japanese filmKing Kong Vs.Godzilla (1962, Jp.)(akaGodzilla vs.King Kongin Japan).Various other Kong-related films are summarized in the following list:Son of Kong (1933)Wasei Kingu Kongu (1933, Jp.The film was highlighted by a series of vignettes and adversarial confrontations between the strong-willed and imperious King and Anna.The film has been viewed as having a direct parallel o the collapse of Communism in the USSR and the end of the Berlin Wall, and reflected those changes - this was seen most transparently when Spock reminded Kirk of the old Vulcan proverb: "Only Nixon could go to China.