This extremely funny film, very much unlike director Wilder""s darker filmsDouble Indemnity (1944)andSunset Boulevard (1950), was advertised with the tagline: "The movie too HOT for words" - vaguely referring to either sex, jazz, or the skimpy costumes...We haven""t had any communications since we crash-landed.This planet is uncharted and uninhabited.The apes we brought along have been very helpful.They were a lot stronger and a lot smarter than we ever imagined." (The transmission dissolved into static and then came on again, possibly many years later.It was spoken by Lt.Col.Grace Alexander (Anne Ramsay), theOberon""schief medical officer and one of the ape trainers.) "The apes are out of control.One male named Semos, who I raised myself, has taken over the group.We have weapons, but I don""t know how much longer we""ll last.Maybe I saw the truth when they were young and I wouldn""t admit it.They were good students and...(sounds of screaming)."Leo had learned that theOberonwent searching for him, but because the vortex pushed him forward in time, they couldn""t locate him.It turned out to be a classic, dark-toned, dimly-lit moody film based on the 1959 novelMcCabeby Edmund Naughton, about a naive, non-conformist, bearded anti-hero -- a vain- glorious cardsharp in the snowy Northwest rather than the hot dusty Southwest.She also vowed to be a loyal Macy""s customer: ("Imagine a big outfit like Macy""s, puttin"" the spirit of Christmas ahead of he commercial.As he looked down, he said to himself: "Never set one of them above the rest.Love all humanity instead.It""s not fair" - and then delivered a quick kiss.Her memory was instantly erased (as inSuperman II (1980)), and as she was dazed with her eyes closed, he quickly changed back to Clark Kent and rapidly dressed in a white tuxedo for the dinner.