The film concluded with a quote about the hopeless, sinful nature of man - without God""s redeeming intervention: "And crawling on the planet’s face, some insects called the human race.Universal was so unimpressed with the film that it was double-billed in movie theatres as the second B-movie film when first released, following the main featureThe Female Animal (1958).Immediately, the rematch was set, with newspaper sports announcements ("Rocky vs.Drago - For Guilt or Glory? - Public Outraged over Apollo""s Death"), a cover story inRolling Stone("People Protest Against Apollo""s Killer," "Public Sees Red Anger Grows," and "Who is Responsible for Apollo""s Death?"), aNew York Postheadline: "Boxing Commission KO""s Rocky - Will not sanction fight - "Wait 2 years," aNewsweekstory: "Pride or Suicide - Rocky vs.Norma is deluded into believing that she will have a great comeback on the big screen ("a return o the millions of people who have never forgiven me for deserting he screen") playing the lead in her own rough draft of a screenplay itled "Salome" - "a very important picture.