The film was symbolic of the cold war battle between East and West, with blatant Commie-bashing as part of its plot, although Rocky""s final victory speech in the ring was a foretaste of easing tensions (glastnost).It""s so hard to keep a man." Miz Zeffie looks at a picture of her deceased husband Joseph, with a piece of black crepe draped across the top of the frame, and decides o lend the poor man clothes.She was arrested by Lone (who knew about her double-identity), was questioned about the two deaths she was suspected of committing ("all of the evidence.Co-producers and directors Merian C.Cooper and Ernest B.Schoedsack (both real-life adventurers and film documentarians) conceived of the low-budget story of a beautiful, plucky blonde woman (Fay Wray) and a frightening, gigantic, 50 foot ape-monster as a metaphoric re-telling of the archetypal Beauty and the Beast fable.The policeman""s badge (symbol of law and order) dissolves into the muzzle-barrel end of a high-powered rifle of a criminal sniper - linking the two combatants.