Ed (1996)A chimpanzee, billed as his minor league baseball's team's mascot, turns out to be the best third baseman since Brooks Robinson. Consigned as his roomie is pathetic pitcher Matt LeBlanc.
Related link: Poster
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1996)
Africa Express (1975)
John Baxter (Giuliano Gemma) is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa
with a pet chimp and one dream: to save enough money to buy his dream
gas station in Detroit. Madeleine Cooper (Ursula Andress) is the lady of
mystery he runs into as she flees from big game hunter Jack Palance.
Africa Screams (1949)
Lou Costello plays the colorfully inept Stanley Livingstone, a meek
book salesman whose shifty pal Buzz Johnson (Bud Abbott) gets him
to pose as a big-game hunter . It's part of a scheme to get money
out of Diana Emerson (Hillary Brooke), who plans to search for a
lost diamond mine in the heart of Africa. Stanley has memorized a
long out-of-print book containing a map to themine. Buzz, Stanley,
Diana, and Diana's henchmen are on an African safari. In one scene,
while being chased by cannibals, Stanley pauses next to what he
thinks are two tree trunks and sees the cannibals retreat in
fear. Then he realizes he is standing directly under a King Kong-
sized ape. Later, a friendly female gorilla that has access to the
diamonds falls in love with Stanley . Big Game Hunter Frank Buck
and Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty make cameo appearances.
Aida (1953)
Aida (Sophia Loren) keeps a pet monkey.
Aladdin (1992)
Aladdin is a street-urchin who lives in a large and busy town
with his faithful monkey friend Abu.
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Sequels:
The Return of Jafar (1993)
Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)
Alakazam The Great (1961)
A Japanese-made animated children's film about the exploits of a magical
monkey's adventures.
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Andromeda Strain, The (1971)
A lab monkey keels over after being exposed to the space virus.
Angels in White (1936)
A lab monkey releases mosquitoes infected with yellow fever.
Angkor [aka Forbidden Adventure] (1937)
Hunters in search of a monitor lizard encounter
a giant ape.
Animal Behavior (1989)
The beautiful biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to
communicate with chimpanzees: instead of machines she uses a simple
sign language. Her research and competition with ignorant colleagues
lets her overlook the amorous approaches of cellist Mark. She accepts
his help, but no more, believing he's married.
Related link: Video
box cover
Animals Are Beautiful People (1974)
Jamie Uys's documentary about the unusual behavior of wildlife
in Africa's wilderness.
A*P*E (1976)
In a plot reminiscent of "King Kong," a 36-foot gorilla winds
up in Korea where he wreaks havoc while enamored with a visiting
American actress.
Related link: DVD
cover
The Ape (1940)
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human
to complete the formula for his experimental serum.
To accomplish this, Adrian sneaks through the night wearing
the pelt of a missing circus ape.
The Ape Man (1943)
Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster,
aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself
into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure,
Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human spinal
fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him, it
falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find appropriate donors.
Related link: Video box cover
An Apish Trick (1909)
A man exhibits simian traits after his wife injects him with a serum derived from monkeys in
this French one-reeler.
Arizona Cyclone (1928)
A pet monkey causes trouble when it removes money from a desk.
At The Circus (1939)
A wealthy young man (Kenny Baker II) forsakes the fortune of his rich
aunt (Margaret Dumont) to run the circus in which his sweetheart
(Florence Rice) & he perform. But when the evil owner (James Burke)
steals the money to pay off the mortgage, the only people who can help
are the strongman Goliath's assistant Punchy (Harpo Marx), circus hand
Antonio Pirelli (Chico Marx), & Antonio's shyster friend, J. Cheever
Loophole (Groucho Marx). Oh, and there's a gorilla named Gibraltar.
The Attic (1979)
A librarian devotes her life to caring for a wheelchair-bound tyrannical
father after being stood up at the altar. She fantasizes about his death and
finds joy only with her pet monkey. When the monkey disappears, a shocking
past is revealed.
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Austin demonstrates the Internet to Foxxy Cleopatra by
showing her a clip of a chimpanzee from "America's Funniest
Home Videos"
Away All Boats (1956)
The ship's captain has a pet monkey.
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
Chimpanzees are among the animals staying at the animal hotel.
Baby's Day Out (1994)
The wealthy Baby Bink is the subject of an attempted
kidnapping that continues to go comically awry.
At one point, Baby Bink makes his way into the monkey house and into
the arms of a protective gorilla who acts as a bodyguard for the baby, further foiling the inept
kidnappers.
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Balaoo ou des Pas au Plafond [aka Balaoo the Demon Baboon] (1913)
An ape, turned near human by Dr. Coriolis and given the name 'Balaoo', is smitten by the beauty of Coriolis' niece,
Madeleine. Being inquisitive, though, he runs off, getting into mischief, and falls in with a poacher who saves his life. Acting
now as his slave, Balaoo kills a man for the poacher, but balks on his orders to kidnap Madeleine, deciding instead to set a
trap for the poacher.
The Barefoot Executive (1971)
TV network executives discover that a chimpanzee can accurately
predict which TV programs will be ratings winners in this Disney
comedy.
Related link: Video box cover
Remake: The Barefoot Executive (1995 TV-movie)
Beast of Borneo (1934)
A mad scientist named Boris Borodoff conducts experiments
using man and ape. He and his beautiful assistant go deep
into the jungle to round up a live ape for further experiments.
The Beast That Killed Women (1965)
A gorilla terrorizes a nudist camp.
Bedtime For Bonzo (1951)
Professor Peter Boyd's engagement to the Dean's daughter is upset by
the revelation that Peter's father was a habitual convict. To prove the
Dean's genetic theory of inherited traits as wrong, Boyd starts a
'secret' experiment. He borrows the science department's chimpanzee
with the goal of showing that it is one's environment that affects
your reaction to right and wrong.
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Sequel: Bonzo Goes To College (1952)
Bonzo runs away from a carnival sideshow, landing in the
college town of Pawlton where he is adopted by the granddaughter
of the college football coach.
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Cameron Diaz has a pet chimpanzee named Elijah that suffers
from ulcers. The chimp later rescues Diaz after she is tied up
by her husband.
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
Two entertainers parachute onto a Pacific island
where they encounter natives, evil scientist Bela Lugosi and a gorilla.
Bikini Beach (1964)
A millionaire sets out to prove that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the
teenagers who hang out on the local beach where he is intending to build a
retirement home and throw the kids off.
Related link: DVD cover
Black Zoo [aka Horrors of the Black Zoo] (1938)
Los Angeles zoo-owner Michael Conrad, insanely devoted to his animals, stops at nothing to eliminate obstacles to his work.
Michael's wife, Edna, plots to leave him and rejoin her
work in the circus. Edna's agent, Jenny, is killed by a gorilla
after Michael overhears Jenny making Edna a tempting job offer.
A Blind Bargain (1922)
Lon Chaney does double duty as an experimenting scientist
and the scientist's apelike assistant created by a monkey gland transplant.
Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)
Sequels:
Bomba on Panther Island (1949)
Bomba is in pursuit of a panther that killed Bomba's monkey friend.
Born To Be Wild [aka Katie] (1995)
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into
trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work
cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to
communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the
gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it
upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous
journey to get her out of the country.
Related link: Video cover
Born to Kill (1996)
A hitman named Kil has a pet monkey named Chichi in this
Korean picture.
Brain Dead (1992)
In 1957 a zoologist traps a rare rat monkey on Skull Island and brings
it back to New Zealand with the local aborigines hot on his trail.
Later, a young man falls in love and takes the young woman to the zoo.
His overbearing and disapproving mother follows them and gets bitten
by the rat monkey. The monkey's bite turns her into a zombie, and her
doting son has to keep her (and the others she's bitten) tranquilized
in the basement while trying to preserve his love life.
The Bride and the Beast (1957)
Laura was the Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation.
Related link: Movie poster
Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Raymond Burr is the subject of a voodoo curse that turns him
into a gorilla -- or is it all in his mind?
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Bruce Almighty (2003)
Using his God-granted powers, Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) makes a monkey
materialize in the pants of a hoodlum.
Buddy (1997)
Rene Russo plays a socialite who raises a gorilla as a family member.
Related link: Buddy (Sony Pictures)
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Bulletproof Monk (2003)
A young monk has a pet capuchin that scratches the face
of a Nazi attacking his temple.
A Business Affair (1993)
In this French film, a man buys a monkey for his wife after
she loses a baby.
Bye Bye Monkey/Ciao maschio (1977)
Sardonic, bleak comedy about a group of misfits in a decrepit area of
Manhattan where rats seem about to displace humanity in all the buildings.
Depardieu, irresistible to women as always, prefers the company of a
chimpanzee.
Calcutta (1947)
The film's cast includes Josephine the monkey.
The Cameraman (1928)
In his manic rush to get to Chinatown, Buster
Keaton tramples on an organ grinder's monkey.
Buster is forced to pay off the enraged organ
grinder and remove the poor creature for proper
burial. However, like Lazarus risen from the dead,
the capuchin is only stunned.
Buster ends up with a little assistant in tow,
wrapped affectionately around his head.
Captive Wild Woman (1943)
A mad scientist turns an orangutan into Paula, a beautiful woman.
Related link: Video box cover
Sequels:
Jungle Woman (1944)
Shot after killing her creator in "Captive Wild Woman,"
Paula the ape is turned into a woman once again.
Jungle Captive (1945)
Dr. Stendhal retrieves Paula's corpse and revives her.
Mentally subnormal, she reverts to ape form to save a girl's
brain from the scalpel.
Carnival Girl (1933)
Carnival Magic (1982)
Markos the Magnificent is a circus magician whose main attraction
is Alex, the talking chimpanzee. Alex gets chimp-napped by the
jealous lion tiger who turns the ape over to a mad scientist.
Carry On Up The Jungle (1970)
A comedic takeoff on Tarzan by the "Carry On" cast.
Chang (1927)
Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
When a circus co-owner is found dead with a broken neck in
a locked wagon, the circus ape, Caesar, is suspected of killing him.
The Chill Factor [aka A Cold Day's Night] (1972 tv-movie)
Two scientists working with primates in a polar research
station discover they may not be alone.
The Chimp (1922 short)
In lieu of back wages, the defunct circus that Laurel and Hardy have been working for provides them with a flea circus and a
trained chimpanzee named Ethel. Unfortunately, that's also the name of their landlord's wife, and after the boys sneak the
ape into their room, the jealous man draws some unfortunate conclusions when he overhears Hardy ordering Ethel to "come
to bed."
The Circus (1928)
Charlie Chaplin attempts a tightrope walk while being bitten on the nose by monkeys.
Circus Rookies (1928)
"Bimbo, the Man-Eating Ape" gets loose on a train,
chasing a trapeze artist onto the train roof, frightening
the engineer and breaking the train whistle.
City of Ghosts (2003)
Matt Dillon has his sunglasses stolen by a monkey.
Circus Rookies (1929)
A crazed gorilla goes on a rampage on a runaway train.
Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)
A poacher attempts to capture young gorillas for sale
on the black market.
Club Dread (2004)
A club staff member is attacked by a spider monkey.
Cobra Woman (1944)
The hapless Jon Hall keeps getting captured by natures. It's Coco
the chimpanzee to the rescue!
Congo (1995)
Greed is bad, this simple morality tale cautions. A megalomaniacal
C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a
source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as
powerful laser communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?).
When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter-
in-law is sent after them. She is a former CIA operative and,
accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters
(including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a
nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon's mines), sets out
to rescue her former fiance.
Related link: Movie poster
Cooley High (1975)
The boys cut class and have a humorous encounter with
a zoo gorilla.
Crazy Knights (1944)
Circus performers Dave Hammon, Billy Gilbert and Shemp Howard are en route to the next town with their trained gorilla act when they are nearly run off the road by a car driven by Maxie Rosenbloom, the chauffeur to Mr. Gardner.
At the Gardner estate, the gorilla escapes from his cage
as Jayne Hazard disappears.
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
Includes a scene with a chimpanzee.
Darkest Africa (1936)
In this movie serial, Clyde Beatty meets Bonga the gorilla
while trying to effect a rescue in the dark continent.
Dinosaur (2000)
In this Disney film, a dinosaur is raised by a family of lemurs.
Related link: Walt Disney Pictures presents Dinosaur
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The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (1915)
This early stop-action animated short features
a gorilla named Wild Willie who fights a brontosaurus.
Dr. Dolittle (1967)
One of Dr. Dolittle's animal companions was a chimpanzee.
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Doctor Dolittle (1998)
Eddie Murphy stars as a veterinarian who discovers he can talk
to his animal patients.
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Sequel: Doctor Dolittle 2 (2001)
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Doctor of Doom (1965)
A scientist's obsession with brain experimentation drives him to transplant a gorilla's brain in a man's head.
The doctor then places an ape's brain in the head of an intelligent woman wrestler, whose death is eventually avenged by her sister, also a
victim of the doctor's experiments.
Doctor Rhythm (1938)
After Andy Devine gets drunk, he lets loose the monkeys in the zoo.
The Doctor's Experiment; or Reversing Darwin's Theory (1908)
The doctor turns his victims into apes. Upon discovering
he can't change them back, he puts them on display.
Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
A sound remake of the silent "Balaoo."
A young man visits his fiancie in a remote French villa where her scientist father (George Zucco) resides. There he meets
Noel (J. Carrol Naish), Dr. Renault's mysterious assistant, who has a strange attraction to Renault's daughter. Soon he
learns Noel's true identity: he is an ape that was turned into a man by Renault's bizarre experiments!
Don Juan (1926)
A monkey is seen scampering from the window of Don Juan's home
early in the movie.
The Door With Seven Locks (1962)
A mad scientist wants to transplant the head of a man onto a chimp's body.
Dunston Checks In (1996)
In this slapstick adventure, a jewel-thief orangutan named
Dunston causes chaos as he makes his way through a swanky
Manhattan hotel to rob the guests. Dunston's master is
the film's meanie, so the ape befriends the two young sons
of the hotel's manager.
Related link: 20th Century Fox: Dunston
Checks In
Ed (1996)
A chimpanzee, billed as his minor league baseball's
team's mascot, turns out to be the best third baseman
since Brooks Robinson. Consigned as his roomie is pathetic
pitcher Matt LeBlanc.
Related link: Poster
Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
The travails of a bare-knuckle boxer (Clint Eastwood) and
his travelling companion, an orangutan named Clyde.
Related link: Video box cover
Sequel: Any Which Way You Can (1980)
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The Fakir's Spell (1914)
Fierce Creatures (1997)
A corporation tries to boost attendance at the Marwood Zoo in
London by featuring vicious animals. Willa (Jamie Lee Curtis)
expresses fondness for the gorillas. Ring-tailed lemurs appear
in the film and in its promotional materials.
Related link: DVD cover
Related link: Fierce
Creatures Matinee Room
The Fifth Monkey [aka O Quinto Macaco] (1980)
A Brazilian snake hunter, trying to make enough money to marry the
woman he loves, finds four mysterious chimpanzees. He embarks upon a
journey to sell them in the big city, and learns about himself
and the world around him on the way there.
Related link: Video
box cover
First Born (1989 TV mini-series)
Edward Forester is a genetic researcher, intent on breeding primate
hybrids. But his experiments take a strange turn when he succeeds in
breeding a human/gorilla hybrid. He hides the results of the
experiment, adopting the child, and helps Gor to speak and blend into
society. But Gor can't help being what he is, and tragedy and
revelations are the ultimate result.
Forbidden Adventure (1934) [aka Inyaah / Gorilla Woman]
Related link: Pressbook
Forbidden Jungle (1950)
Tawa the jungle boy is accompanied by the mischievious
chimpanzee, Tamba.
45 Fathers (1937)
Arriving at a New York pier, 10-year-old Judith Frazier
(Jane Withers) is worried she won't be able to bring her
pet monkey, Gertrude, ashore. Gertrude later appears
to trap a cat inside a piano.
The General Died at Dawn (1936)
Gary Cooper has a pet monkey.
George of the Jungle (1997)
George's best friend is Ape, an intelligent gorilla with
the cultured voice of John Cleese.
Related link: DVD
cover
Sequel:
George of the Jungle 2 (2002)
Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve (of radio fame) is running for police
commissioner against incumbent Haley. The ghosts (!) of his ancestors
decide to help him get elected, but succeed only
in getting him mixed up with mad scientist John Wells, an escaped
gorilla, and an intermittently invisible showgirl.
Gladiator, The (1938)
Professor Albert Danner (Lucien Littlefield) is developing
a strength serum. The serum gives Bosco the monkey the
strength of a gorilla.
Go and Get It (1920)
An intrepid newspaper reporter attempts to solve a series of murders committed by a gorilla carrying the
transplanted brain of a human.
Going Ape (1981)
When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Oscar inherits 5
million dollars - and 3 orangutans. However there's a condition
connected to the money: if he gives away the apes or just one gets
sick or dies during the next 3 years, the zoologic society will get
all the money. He not only has to deal with 3 apes and an annoyed
girlfriend, but also with a greedy zoologic society's president.
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Two chimpanzees are shown huddling during the "Pettin'
in the Park" musical number
The Gorilla (1927)
At an old-dark-house a gorilla is suspected of committing a series of murders
Remake: The Gorilla (1930)
The Gorilla (1939)
When a wealthy man is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real
escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive.
Gorilla (1956)
A hunter travels deep into the jungle to hunt down a killer
ape, but his efforts are hampered by a pesky female journalist.
Gorilla At Large (1954)
At sinister carnival The Garden of Evil, the main attraction is
Goliath, "world's largest gorilla...cost the lives of 1,000 men before
his capture." Barker Joey Matthews is about to enter the gorilla act,
teamed with seductive mantrap Laverne, the owner's wife. Then a man is
found dead of a broken neck. Was it Goliath or someone wearing Joey's
gorilla suit? Detective Sgt. Garrison finds four interlocked romantic
triangles among the suspects...
Der Gorilla von Soho [aka The Ape Creature/Gorilla Gang] (1968)
Related link: Lobby card
Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey, in this true story about
Fossey's study of gorillas, and her efforts to stop the decimation of
the endangered apes.
Related link: Video box cover
The Hairy Ape (1944)
William Bendix visits Goliath the gorilla at the zoo.
Half-Human (1955)
This film of Japanese origin follows a Yeti-like creature
and offspring. The American version is interrupted by
inserted footage of John Carradine and Morris Ankrum.
Happiness Cage, The (1972)
Hero in the Family (1986 TV-movie)
Astronaut Cliff de Young switches minds with his chimpanzee
space traveling companion.
Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)
Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble, forcing them to stop at an old haunted mansion.
Soon they realize that the house is not only haunted, but is also the headquarters of a ring of international
spies after a top secret formula for rocket fuel.
Foreign spy Lon Chaney Jr. is assisted by a gorilla.
Related link: Movie poster
Hit The Deck (1957)
Sailor Russ Tamblyn has a brief interaction with
a capuchin monkey at a carnival.
Hollow Man (2000)
Scientists working to create a serum to render a person
invisible use a gorilla as a test subject.
Hollywood Party (1934)
Jimmy Durante is presented with a gorilla as a gift.
El Hombre y la Bestia (1962)
La Horripilante bestia humana (1968) [aka Gomar: The Human Gorilla; Night
of the Bloody Apes]
A doctor hopes to cure his ailing son by replacing the boy's
heart with that of a gorilla.
The House of Mystery (1934)
Verna Hillie is threatened by a kilker gorilla.
Human Nature (2001)
Puff (Rhys Ifans), a young man who has been raised by apes,
is being trained in the ways of the human world by Dr. Nathan
Bronfman (Tim Robbins).
The Hunger (1983)
Sleep researcher Dr. Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon) uses
macaques in her study of the link between sleep and longevity.
Ice-Capades Revue (1942)
Ingagi (1931)
An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe. After many
dangerous adventures, they come upon the tribe they sought, only to watch as a virgin is sacrificed to a huge gorilla, who
takes her away. The expedition follows the gorilla in an attempt to save the woman.
Inspector Gadget 2 (2003)
Inspector Gadget searches for the Claw at the Blue Monkey
Bar where a monkey dials 911 when a fight breaks out.
Instinct (1999)
Anthony Hopkins stars as a primatologist who
has studied and lived among African apes for several years.
Affected by years of living among the wild, Hopkins develops
a brutal ape-like persona and is charged for three murders in
Rwanda. Psychiatrist Cuba Gooding Jr attempts to find out
the truth behind Hopkins' transformation.
Related link: Instinct
(Buena Vista)
The Intruder (1932)
A grisly murder is committed on board a
cruise ship. Before an investigation can really get started, the ship is wrecked in a storm and the survivors find
themselves shipwrecked on a mysterious jungle island. The survivors are terrorized
by weird sounds from the jungle and are horrified when they discover a cave full of skeletons. After another
murder occurs, several of the survivors flee into the jungle only to encounter a fanatical wild man and a killer
gorilla!
In the Doghouse (1961)
Peggy Cummins is the owner of a performing chimp that is on the loose.
In The Shadow of Kilimanjaro (1986)
Due to a serious drought, hordes of
African baboons suddenly begin
attacking humans and eating them
alive. A game warden pleads with
the African government to evacuate
everyone in the area, while a
ruthless businessman refuses to
clear out his workers, leaving them
as unknowing targets for the
starving primates.
Janasheen (2004)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
The Jennie Project (2001 tv-movie)
Kids' movie about a chimpanzee taught to speak.
Jumanji (1995)
Monkeys wreak havoc and make off
with a squad car.
Jungle Book (1942)
The Jungle Book (1967)
Monkeys kidnap young Mowgli and carry him off to King Louie,
an orangutan who wants to learn the secret of making fire.
Related link: Video box cover
Sequel: The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
The Jungle Book (1994)
A faithful live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of Mowgli, the jungle
boy who is raised by wolves.
Jungle Jim (1948)
Jim's constant companion is a chimp named Tamba.
Sequels:
Cannibal Attack (1954)
Captive Girl (1950)
Jungle Manhunt (1951)
Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952)
Jim and his chimp Tamba stumble into a land of giant creatures
and giant people.
Killer Ape (1953)
Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) finds out that members of the Wazuli tribe are selling
animals to white hunters. These animals are in turn used for illegal research in a scheme
to create drugs for bacterial warfare. Before Jim can foil the villains' plans, he must first
clear himself of a murder charge. The film's title derives from the tribesmen's habit of
wearing ape costumes to scare away outsiders.
Mark of the Gorilla (1950)
Nazis dressed as great apes are looking for gold. It's up
to Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) to stop them.
Karzan, il favoloso uomo della giungla [aka
Karzan and His Mate; Jungle Master] (1972)
Lord Carter finances an expedition hoping to capture Karzan
(that's what he's called in this one) for scientific study. They get more than they bargained for when they
capture Karzan AND his mate, Sheran. With some help from Cheeka (Karzan's chimp companion), Karzan
escapes. Later, Sheran escapes but Karzan is recaptured. Ultimately, Lord Carter decides it would be wrong to take Karzan from his jungle
home - so he releases him.
King Kong (1933)
While scouting locations for filming a movie, a shipload
of moviemakers stumble upon Skull Island, home of a gigantic
ape called Kong. Natives kidnap the actress travelling
with the crew, and offer her as a sacrifice to Kong.
The moviemakers manage to rescue the girl and capture
the ape, hauling him back to New York City where they exhibit
him as the "eighth wonder of the world." Kong breaks loose.
Smitten with the actress, he carries her to the top of
the Empire State Building. Trapped at the summit, Kong is
shot down by strafing airplanes, falling to his death.
Related link: King Kong - The Eighth Wonder of the World
Sequels/remakes:
Son of Kong (1933)
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
King Kong Escapes (1967)
While hacking through the jungle, expedition leader Nelson (Rhodes Reason) and
his companions are attacked by a dinosaur. They are rescued by King Kong.
Meanwhile a mad scientist is busy constructing "Mechni-Kong,"
a giant robot meant to take out King Kong. The two behemoths
clash on Tokyo Tower.
King Kong (1976)
King Kong Lives (1986)
King of Kings, The (1927)
One of Mary Magdalene's male admirers has a pet monkey on his shoulder.
King of Kong Island (1968)
A group of mad scientists use brain implants on Kong Island in
an attempt to create a gorilla army. Out to stop their
nefarious ways is a descendant of King Kong.
King of the Kongo (1929)
A Secret Service agent searches the jungle for his missing brother,
also an agent. He encounters a young woman there who is also
searching, but for her missing father. They encounter a gang of ivory
smugglers who hold a prisoner who knows the secrets of the missing
people and a lost treasure. The pair are also menaced by a giant
gorilla which guards the temple which is the smugglers' lair.
Konga (1961)
Dr. Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During
that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an
enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his
theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp,
Konga to "get rid of them". Then Konga grows to gigantic
proportions and wreaks havoc throughout the city of London.
Kongo (1932)
Madman Flint keeps a pet chimpanzee named Kong on a chain. Kong is highlighted
in one of the last scenes in the film, discovering the remains of Flint after
he is killed by African natives.
Ladron de Cadavres [aka The Body Snatchers] (1956)
In another of the popular wrestling films from Mexico,
a mad scientist transplants the brain of a gorilla
into the head of a wrestler.
Lady Killer (1933) James Cagney brings a crate of monkeys to his girlfriend's birthday party. When he releases the monkeys, they tear apart the party and her mansion.
Law of the Jungle (1942)
A fugitive from justice and an outlaw
scientist are chased through the jungle by Nazis and a killer gorilla.
The Leopard Lady (1928)
Paula joins a circus where several murders have occurred.
Among the suspects is gorilla trainer Caesar (Alan Hale Sr.), who previously
had saved Paula's life. Nonetheless, when Caesar is revealed to be the murderer, he
unleashes one of his killer apes with orders to tear Paula and her sweetheart Chris
(Robert Armstrong) apart.
Link (1986)
Student Jane works as an assistant for the animal researcher Phillip
in a lonesome old house. They life alone except for the chimpanzees
and butler Link: a 45 years old very intelligent orangutan.
Phillip wants to put Link to death. However before Phillip can do this
he vanishes without a trace. Link begins to behave
more aggressive and prohibits Jane from using the phone or reaching
the next village. When she punishes him by locking him out, he
becomes violent.
The Lion King (1994)
One of Mufasa's advisors is a baboon named Rafiki.
Related link: Lion King Archive: Rafiki
A Little Princess (1986 tv-movie)
Sara Crewe is the pampered darling of her father, an army colonel, and the
Victorian London girls' school where he places her. But when her father
dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's school, befriended
only by the scullery maid, Becky, her friends Ermengarde and Lottie, a little
monkey, a lascar, and the mysterious man next door.
The Little Rascals (1994)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
The Blue Monkey Diamond has the power to change humans
into monkeys and back again.
Lorraine of the Lions (1925)
Lorraine is the survivor of a shipwreck, living among the
circus animals that were stranded on the island with her.
One of the animals is a gorilla named Bimi.
Lost in Translation (2003)
Bill Murray plays a fading movie star who once starred
in a movie with a chimpanzee.
The Lost Jungle (1934 serial)
Clyde Beatty leads an jungle exploration that uncovers a lost
city guarded by a giant, killer gorilla.
The Love Light (1921)
Roguish merchant Tony has a pet capuchin who helps
tip the scales in Tony's favor by pulling down on the
scale with its tail.
Lt. Robinson Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966)
Dick Van Dyke plays an astronaut stranded on an island with a chimpanzee
traveling companion.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
A monkey is shown carrying a water bottle.
The Mafu Cage [aka The Cage] (1978)
Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape.
The Man Who Changed His Mind [aka The Man Who Lived Again] (1936)
Boris Karloff is a mad scientist who discovers a way to transfer minds and personalities with chimps. It's only a matter of time before he starts trying it on humans.
The Man Without a Body (1957)
A wealthy businessman discovers he has a brain tumor and seeks medical help. The businessman finds a scientist
experimenting with transplanting monkey heads on different monkey bodies.
Marrakech Express (1989)
Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)
A chimp gets loose in Max's classroom attacking the
school principal.
Max, Mon Amour (1986)
A diplomat's wife takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
The Mighty Gorga (1969)
The hunt for a gigantic African gorilla provides the basis for this adventure-fantasy.
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Jill Young has brought up her pet gorilla since she was a child.
When the gorilla is full grown, Hollywood promoter Max O'Hara
travels to Africa and convinces Jill to bring the gorilla, Joe,
back to America. When in Hollywood, Joe is used in a stage
production and is exploited to no end. It doesn't take long until
Joe is sick of being mistreated and he escapes to run loose in
civilization.
Related link: Magazine ad
Mighty Joe Young (1998)
Deep in the heart of Africa, a 15-foot gorilla lives far secluded
from the prying eye of man, protected by a young woman named Jill
who has known him all her life. Joe, as she calls him, is a kind,
gentle creature. When a zoologist discovers the two, he convinces
them to move to a California preserve with him so that the miracle
of Joe's unusual size can be studied. Unfortunately, there are
poachers who want Joe for the black market and pursue him to
California. When an accident frees Joe into downtown Los Angeles,
the confused gorilla goes on a rampage.
Related link: DVD cover
The Miser's Reversion (1914)
Mogambo (1953)
Includes stock footage of rhesus monkeys and a gorilla
Mom, Can I Keep Her? (1998)
Timmy Blair has the usual twelve-year old's share of problems: his father is too busy at work, his new stepmother loads him
with chores, and school life is as difficult as ever. When a furry friend follows him home from school, Timmy is delighted.
There's only one problem: his new found buddy is a 500-pound gorilla.
Related link: Video cover
Monkeybone (2001)
Comic strip artist Stu (Brendan Fraser) is about
to hit the big time with his simian creation, Monkey Bone,
when he is left in a coma after a car crash. Stu and
Monkey Bone both end up in a strange area of Stu's
mind called Downtown. When Stu finds a way to return
to the land of the living, his chance is stolen by
Monkey Bone who takes over Stu's body.
Related link: DVD
cover
Monkey Business (1952)
Chemist Barnaby Fulton is working on a youth formula, but
is unsuccessful until lab chimp Esther puts her own
additions to the formula. When the youth formula accidentally
gets into the water cooler, the fun really begins.
Related link: Video cover
The Monkey Mission (1981 tv-movie)
A chimpanzee named Gregor is trained to steal an ancient vase.
Monkey Shines: An Experiment In Fear (1988)
When Allan becomes a quadriplegic he loses all hope for living until
he meets Ella - a monkey trained to fetch and carry for him around the
house, obeying him in all things. But Ella is part of another
experiment, and when she starts responding to Allan's underlying rage
and frustration she has the ability to carry out her master's darkest
wishes.
Related link: Movie poster
Monkey Trouble (1994)
Dodger the monkey runs away from an abusive street
performer (Harvey Keitel) and is found by a troubled
teen, whose parents forbid pets. The girl
and the monkey bond. But she soon learns that Dodger has
been trained as a pickpocket and keeps making off with
watches and jewelry. Meanwhile, Dodger's owner has
made a deal with the mob to use the monkey in a heist,
and is desperate to get the monkey back.
Related link: Video cover
Monkeys, Go Home (1967)
Monkeys trained to harvest olives upset the locals.
Related link: DVD cover
A Monkey's Tale (1999)
An animated film about the differences between two
communities of monkeys.
The Monkey's Uncle (1965)
Young scientist Merlin Jones is perfecting a method of sleep-learning
using first a chimpanzee, and then Annette Funicello, as guinea pigs.
Related link: Video
box cover
The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Scot Webster tries to save his sister Susan from the clutches of gangster W.S. Bruhl. When Scot comes to Bruhl's rented
room, one of the gangster's aides falls into his hands, killed by a gunman. The murderer tosses his gun to Scot and
disappears, leaving Scot to take the fall. He is sentenced to death,
but a mad scientist retrieves
his brain to transplant into a gorilla. After the operation, Scot wakes up in the body of a gorilla, eager to get his revenge.
The Monster Walks (1932)
People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.
Mookie (1998)
A monk discovers a talking chimpanzee in Mexico. When
scientists want to take away the chimp, the monk goes on the
run to Mexico City with a boxer who is on the lam from
mafioso types.
Moon Pilot (1962)
Mona is the chimpanzee who accompanies an astronaut into space.
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1914)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women
and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human
kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
Medical student Pierre Dupin soon uncovers Mirakle's work.
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986 tv-movie)
MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000)
A chimpanzee used in a sign-language program escapes
from the lab and winds up on a train bound for Canada.
The ape befriends a deaf girl, and begins playing for a junior
hockey team!
Related link:
Keystone Entertainment
Sequels:
MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate (2001)
Jack the chimp from "MVP" enters
the world of skateboarding.
Related link: DVD cover
MXP: Most Xtreme Primate (2003)
Jack the chimp tries snowboarding.
Related link: DVD cover
Related link: Keystone Entertainment
My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)
On a train to California, Jerry Lewis is entrusted with
the pet monkey of actress Corinne Calvet.
Nabonga (1944)
A man, flying over the jungle with his daughter, is carrying
a briefcase of diamonds when the plane crashes. Years later,
treasure hunters make their way into the jungle to find the
diamonds, encountering the daughter, now fully grown in
the form of shapely Julie London. They also encounter
her protector -- a large gorilla named Nabonga.
Related link: DVD cover
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
Animated feature about Pippi and her pet monkey.
Osmosis Jones (2001)
Junk-food junkie Bill Murray picks up a nasty virus
after his food is handled by a zoo monkey.
Outbreak (1995)
A deadly monkey-borne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing
off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the
virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to
prevent a zealous Army general from blowing up innocent people.
Related link: DVD cover
Paradise pour tous (1982)
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people.
After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain
Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except maybe Alain's
wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality.
Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy
about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by
the overstability and stereotyped behavior of the cured ones. Soon so are the
humans. When Valois realizes he can't stop the process, he decides to
"flash" himself.
Peter Pan (1953)
Two animated apes try on the hat of a passing John Darling
as he leads the Lost Boys in an attack against the Indians.
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
Karl Malden plays Dr. Marais, a zoo curator whose hypnotizes
an ape to do his bidding. When the ape is sent to kill
Patricia Medina it refuses, making off with her over rooftops.
Phenomena [aka Creepers] (1984)
Actress Jennifer Connelly plays Jennifer Corvino, an
American teenage girl who is attending an all-girls school in Switzerland. As it turns out, Jennifer has a psychic link with insects. She uses her
powers to help catch a deranged killer who is on the loose. Donald Pleasence plays a paralyzed entomologist who owns a chimpanzee.
Pippi in the South Seas (1974)
Pippi Longstocking has a pet monkey.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Capt. Barbossa has a pet monkey named Jack.
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Three astronauts from Earth find themselves stranded on
a planet where apes are the dominant society.
Sequels:
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1969)
Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
TV series: Planet of the Apes (1974)
Remake: Planet of the Apes (2001)
Related link: DVD cover for
1968 film
Related link: DVD cover
for "Beneath..."
Related link: Simian Arms
Related link: Ape City
Related link: Rule the Planet (2001 film site)
Related link: 2001 Movie poster
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)
The girls' nemesis, an evil genius chimpanzee named Mojo Jojo,
plans to take over the city of Townsville with an army of mutated monkeys.
Related link: DVD cover
Project X (1987)
A young military inductee (Matthew Broderick) is given the task of tending to
chimpanzees involved in "Project X," training chimpanzees
to be pilots. After encountering the chimps' former
owner, a young female language specialist (Helen Hunt), and discovering
that radiation exposure is involving in the project, the
inductee plots to help the chimps escape.
Related link: Video
box cover
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Marion Ravenswood takes a shine to a capuchin. The monkey
is working as a spy, but is killed after eating poisoned dates
meant for Indiana Jones.
Rango (1931)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Capt. Stuart (John Wayne) has a pet monkey named Bananas.
Reformer and the Redhead, The (1950)
Among the animals at her home, Kathy Maguire (June Allyson)
has a chimpanzee.
Return of the Ape Man (1944)
Mad scientist Bela Lugosi transplants the brain of John
Carradine into the body of a recently discovered Missing Link.
Return To Me (2000)
David Duchovny plays a veterinarian. Some scenes were filmed at the
Lincoln Park Zoo Great Ape House in Chicago.
Related links: MGM's Official Site
The Road to El Dorado (2000)
While stopping to bathe, the two heroes have their clothes
stolen by monkeys.
Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Bob Hope wrestles with a gorilla.
Robinson Crusoe On Mars (1964)
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must
figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
Related link: Movie poster
Robot Monster (1953)
Ro-Man, an alien that looks remarkably like a gorilla in a diving helmet, has destroyed all but six people on the planet
Earth. He spends the entire film trying to finish off these survivors, but complications arise when he falls for the young
woman in the group.
Related link: DVD cover
Rocket Man (1997)
The adolescent comedy features an astrochimp with a bad attitude toward the wacky hero on the first manned flight to Mars
in this Disney film.
Rundown, The (2003)
Baboons take advantage of The Rock and Seann William Scott
who are left hanging upside after stepping into a trap.
Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
A small plane crashes in the sweltering deserts of South Africa
hundreds of miles from civilization. As parallels are drawn between
the group of humans and a nearby pack of savage baboons, one of the
men's survivalist nature gets the better of him, as he decides his
chances of survival would be better if the others were eliminated
one by one.
Savage Girl (1932)
Tale about a white jungle goddess who's
protected by a giant, killer gorilla.
Shakma (1990)
A laboratory baboon goes on the rampage against a group of medical students
involved in a "Dungeons and Dragons" game.
Related link: Video
box cover
Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery (1908)
A young man is accused of crimes committed by a gorilla who has escaped from his cage.
Based on "Murders in the Rue Morgue."
Showgirls (1995)
Performing chimps run loose in the girls' dressing room.
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
A prince is transformed into a baboon.
Skullduggery (1970)
Burt Reynolds and Susan Clark uncover an man-ape in New
Guinea who may be the missing link.
So This Is Africa (1933)
Comedians Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey are hired
by a film producer to go to Africa with their pet
lions to film a jungle movie. In Africa, they encounter a
gorilla.
Son-goku sora [aka Magic Monkey Sky; Monkey Magic] (1959)
The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who
must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his
fellow Buddhist travelers.
Space Cowboys (2000)
Four astronauts-in-training to become the first American in space
are unexpectedly replaced by a chimpanzee.
Spook Busters (1946)
The Bowery Boys get a job working as exterminators in a
haunted house where Sach is kidnapped by a mad scientist
who plans to transplant Sach's brain into a gorilla.
Stark Mad (1929)
Passengers on a yacht in South America find themselves
having to deal with a big, mean ape.
The Strange Case of Dr. RX (1942)
The Stranger (1994)
This feature follows the adventures of a cynical New Jersey bar janitor
as he takes
LSD, has nightmares, rides subway cars, yells at his pregnant
girlfriend, and kills people. The film also features a cigar-smoking
dwarf bar owner and a chimp wandering through a graveyard.
Summer of the Monkeys (1998)
A young boy in the central plains of 19th-century America discovers four chimpanzees that
have escaped from a circus wagon. He learns that
there is a handsome reward for their return, but grows
attached to the animals.
Related link: DVD cover
A Summer to Remember (1985 tv-movie)
A deaf-mute boy who has withdrawn from society finds a
secret friend in an escaped orangutan who can
communicate via sign language.
Related link: Video cover
Tanya's Island (1980)
Man and ape fight over pretty girl on a deserted island
Tarzan films:
Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
The Romance of Tarzan (1918)
The Revenge of Tarzan (1920)
Son of Tarzan (1920)
Adventures of Tarzan (1921)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan The Fearless (1933 serial)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935 serial)
recut as "Tarzan and the Green Goddess" (1938)
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
Tarzan Finds A Son! (1939)
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
Tarzan's Peril/Tarzan and the Jungle Goddess (1951)
The Tarzan's Savage Fury/Tarzan Hunted (1952)
Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
Tarzan and the Trappers (1958)
Tarzan's Fight For Life (1958)
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
Tarzan, The Ape Man (1959)
Tarzan The Magnificent (1960)
Tarzan Goes To India (1962)
Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion (1965)
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
Tarzan and the Great River (1967)
Tarzans Kampf mit dem Gorilla (1968)
Tarzan's Deadly Silence (1970)
Tarzan, The Ape Man (1981)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Tarzan in Manhattan (1989 tv-movie)
Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)
Tarzan (1999)
"Tarzan" is an animated adventure that traces the story of a human baby who is orphaned in the African jungle and
lovingly raised by a family of apes. Tarzan's peaceful and sheltered world is turned upside down by the arrival
of a human expedition and the revelation that he is a human being. As he struggles to decide which "family" he
belongs with, his dilemma is further complicated by his feelings for a beautiful young woman named Jane
and the discovery that a trusted member of his new human "family" is plotting to harm the apes.
Sequel: Tarzan and Jane (2002)
TV series:
Tarzan (1966)
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1976 animated)
Related link: Pazsaz Entertainment
Tarzan (1991)
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996)
Tarzan (2003)
Related link: B-Movie
Tarzans at Brian's Drive-In Theater
Related link: Matt's
Tarzan Movie Guide
Related link: Tarzan of the Internet
Teenage Zombies (1958)
Four teenagers find themselves stranded on an island with
a foreign power trying to develop a method for turning American
citizens into easily controlled zombies.
The special nerve gas is tested on a gorilla.
The Tender Warrior (1971)
Among the animal friends of Charles Lee is Chuck the chimpanzee.
Terror Tract (2000)
One segment in this trilogy of horror tales is about
a family that adopts an evil monkey.
Time of the Apes (1987)
In this Japanese film, a woman and her two kids are trapped in a cryogenic chamber
and awaken in a future where apes rule over humans.
Tim Tyler's Luck (1937)
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country.
Toby Tyler (1960)
A runaway boy joins a circus and befriends Mr. Stubbs, a chimpanzee.
Trading Places (1983)
During the party on the train, bad guy Paul Gleason is
put into a gorilla costume and thrown into a cage
with a real gorilla.
28 Days Later... (2003)
Chimps released from a British research center carry a deadly
virus that quickly decimates the world's population,
turning the survivors into raging zombies.
Typhoon (1940)
Cast adrift onto an island, Dorothy Lamour survives
for 10 years with only a chimpanzee for a companion
before she encounters Robert Preston.
Unholy Three, The (1925)
A "killer chimpanzee" makes an appearance at the climax of this movie.
Remake: The Unholy Three (1930)
Unknown Island (1948)
A group of scientists searches for prehistoric creatures on a
mysterious island.
Unknown Treasures (1926)
Untamed Mistress (1956)
Two adventurers go into the jungle to rescue a girlfriend,
Velda, from the clutches of the killer gorillas that
originally raised her.
"The kind of woman man or gorilla would kill...to keep!"
West of Zanzibar (1928)
Lon Chaney is shown holding a young chimp in
his lap in one scene.
Where East is East (1929)
Animal trapper Tiger Haynes (Lon Chaney) has a pet gorilla
named Rangho.
White Gorilla (1947)
A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because of his
color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After
troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights the king of
the black gorillas while we are told by a narrator that the fate of
Africa hangs in the balance. The movie was made by editing some 1947
acting into footage from a 1927 silent serial, Perils of the Jungle.
White Pongo (1945)
A white gorilla may be the missing link.
Related link: Movie poster
White Witch Doctor (1953)
Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni
Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take her upriver, despite his misgivings about her suitability for
Africa. They battle escaped gorillas, hostile natives, infected lion wounds, and hostile witch doctors to reach their
destination and on the way, they fall in love. Will their contrasting interests doom their romance?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
A gorilla in a monkey suit (tuxedo) is the bouncer at
the Pen and Ink Club.
Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948)
Another haunted house with a gorilla in it. How many of these
places are there?
The Wild and the Free (1980 tv-movie)
Researchers study chimps.
Related link: CinemaPop
(Has entire movie available for free viewing)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)
Darwin the chimpanzee is the best friend of Eliza Thornberry.
Wild Women (1951) [aka White Sirens of Africa / Bowanga Bowanga]
Related link: Lobby card
Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne (1970) [aka We'll Take
Care of the Teachers]
A school headmaster has a chimpanzee for a pet.
The Wizard (1927)
A remake of the 1913 film "Balaoo." An evil scientist
creates a man-faced ape to destroy the judge who condemned
the scientist's son to death.
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wicked Witch of the West employs a band of Winged Monkeys
to abduct Dorothy.
Related link: Movie scene
Sequel: Volshebnik izumrudnogo goroda (1994)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
King Kong makes a brief appearance near the beginning of the film.
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Dee Dee (Joan Fontaine) is a wealthy heiress who has just made the
mistake of her life by marrying the wrong man. Looking to get away
she hooks up with failing airline entrepreneur Marvin Payne (James
Stewart), who reluctantly agrees to let her hitch a ride across the
country in his cargo plane. The crazy flight begins when the co-pilot
(Eddie Albert) has illegally booked a group of wacky passengers,
including a cigar-smoking chimp.
Zamba (1949)
In the jungle, a young boy becomes lost and separated from his family and is raised by an ape called Zamba. When the boy is six years old his mother finds him, but Zamba refuses to give the boy up.
Zambo the Ape Man [aka Sher-e-Jungle] (1937)
A scientist transforms an ape-like monster into a man who begins to behave like Tarzan.
Sequel: Son of Zambo (1939)
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