The studio had designed a baboon character specifically for the Australian actor who had been cast in the role, a very small, wiry man with a thin face. The actor was mugged in Sydney shortly after the shoot started, leaving him with a broken leg, John Frankenheimer put behaviorist Peter Elliott into the role. "They didn't want to deal with casting a new person who looked like the original guy," Shane Mahan said, "and Peter was there already. So it was just, 'Let Peter do the baboon guy.' Elliott was quite stocky, with a broader face. So we had to stretch and kluge our original baboon makeup to try to make it fit him, and it never looked right. That was really disappointing. We had always been such perfectionists - we weren't in the habit of throwing a makeup together on somebody in that way."

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