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Monkey Business Films good and bad have memorialized primates
From: The Gazette
Date: 20051216
Author:ANDREW WINEKE THE GAZETTE
For more than 70 years, "King Kong" has been Exhibit A for Hollywood's obsession with our simian genetic siblings, but there is a long list of movies featuring apes and monkeys and lemurs. Oh, my!
Some highlights:
"Tarzan of the Apes" -- From the 1918 silent original and through countless remakes, Edgar Rice Burroughs' story of the ape man has proven timeless and utterly irresistible to Hollywood.
"King Kong" -- The 1933 original was one of the first blockbuster talkies. The 1976 remake was a commercial, if not critical, success.
"Jungle Book" -- Yet another oft-remade story, with 1942, ...
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