# How about a good list of monkey movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421 "2005-06-01T18:53:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/41 "2005-06-02T15:43:38Z")
[Ed](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116165/) - the reason why Matt LeBlanc will never be a movie star. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/42 "2005-06-02T16:25:18Z")
**Silent apes:** Tillie’s Tomato Surprise (1915), She (1917), The Goat (1918), Tarzan of the Apes (1918), The Romance of Tarzan (1918), Under Suspicion (1918), A Scream in the Night (1919), It Might Happen to You (1920), Jungle Adventures (1921), Pilgrims of the Night (1921), The Man of the Forest (1921), Travelin’ On (1922), Trifling Women (1922), When Husbands Deceive (1922), The Woman Who Believed (1922), Jungle Trail of the Son of Tarzan (1923), Trailing African Wild Animals (1923), Evolution (1923), Her Reputation (1923), Merry-Go-Round (1923), Hold Your Breath (1924), Darwin Was Right (1924), Equatorial Africa: Roosevelt’s Hunting Grounds (1924), Lorraine of the Lions (1925), The Unholy Three (1925), The Gorilla Hunt (1926), Money To Burn (1926), Sunshine of Paradise Alley (1926), Unknown Treasures (1926), Chang (1927), The Monkey Talks (1927), The Gorilla (1927), The Wizard (1927), Ginsberg the Great (1927), A Hero for a Night (1927), The Missing Link (1927), The Monkey Talks (1927), Arizona Cyclone (1928), Circus Rookies (1928), The Leopard Lady (1928), Hold 'Em Yale (1928), Why Sailors Go Wrong (1928). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/43 "2005-06-02T17:03:08Z")
[Head](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063049/) ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/44 "2005-06-02T17:41:25Z")
_Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/45 "2005-06-02T18:28:01Z")
> [@JerH](#): > > Did nobody get my “orangutans being called monkeys”? That’s just sad. OOOK! ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/46 "2005-06-14T01:50:23Z")
How about: **The Little Covered Wagon** It was the first western with an all-chimpanzee cast, it came out in 1933, and it was produced and directed by Sig Neufeld. The chimps originally came from a vaudeville act called Bud Barsky’s Chimps. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/47 "2005-06-14T07:45:20Z")
While not specifically about monkeys, gorillas, and what-have-you, _Fierce Creatures_, starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Kevin Kline, has many people in gorilla costumes in it. Also a character named Hugh Primates, who is not a monkey, but a monkey-keeper. It’s an absolutely hilarious movie. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/48 "2005-06-14T12:32:54Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > And if you include guys in gorilla suits, you have to include two classics, “Robot Monster” and “Trading Places.” Trading Places had a real gorilla, too. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/49 "2005-06-14T13:07:31Z")
Another for King Kong (the 1933 version) But not the 70’s remake “When the Shark died nobody cried, Whena Konk dies everbody gonna cry” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/50 "2005-06-14T13:54:47Z")
I heard a rumor about a Curious George movie! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/51 "2005-06-14T14:55:15Z")
Babe: Pig in the City ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-a-good-list-of-monkey-movies/306421/52 "2005-06-14T14:56:42Z")
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