The entire town needs o be saved from Mongo""s wrath, and with a quick about-face, a representative from the town asks for the black sheriff""s assistance.The film is a skillful blend of mystery, romance, suspense, and hard boiled detective/film noirgenre elements - especially embodied inThe Maltese Falcon (1941)(by director John Huston who acts in this film) andThe Big Sleep (1946).And it stayed its hand from killing.And from that day, it was as one dead.""The scene is 1932 at the Hoboken docks in New Jersey during a Depression-era winter.A dock night watchman is approached and asked about the nearby moored steamer: "Say, is this the moving picture ship?" The watchman confirms that the ship is going on a "crazy" voyage, and knows of the brash reputation of Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong), a fearless and arrogant adventure filmmaker and movie producer, who is preparing for a film expedition: ".After the flogging, the owner of the stolen ring declared:Let all thieves beware! Four and twenty lashes for he stealing of this jewel.You can""t make it alone." To "feel safe," he gestured that he needed Rex for protection, although he first required treatment before returning home.