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Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
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28 September 1951 (Finland)
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The funniest new idea on film since "FRANCIS!"
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College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development. full summary | add synopsis
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Tarzan Chimp Makes Hollywood Comeback
(From WENN. 30 June 2008, 9:07 AM, PDT)
Former President Ronald Reagan Dies at 93
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(From WENN. 30 June 2008, 9:07 AM, PDT)
Former President Ronald Reagan Dies at 93
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Featherweight fare
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ronald Reagan | ... | Prof. Peter Boyd |
 | Diana Lynn | ... | Jane Linden |
| Walter Slezak | ... | Prof. Hans Neumann |
| Lucille Barkley | ... | Valerie Tillinghast |
| Jesse White | ... | Babcock |
| Herbert Heyes | ... | Dean Tillinghast |
| Herb Vigran | ... | Lt. Daggett (as Herbert Vigran) |
| Harry Tyler | ... | Knucksy Breckenridge |
| Edward Clark | ... | Professor Fosdick (as Ed Clark) |
| Edward Gargan | ... | Policeman Bill (as Ed Gargan) |
| Joel Friedkin | ... | Mr. DeWitt |
| Brad Browne | ... | Chief of Police |
| Elizabeth Flournoy | ... | Miss Swithen |
| Howard Banks | ... | Policeman |
| Perc Launders | ... | Fireman |
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83 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Often used by Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show" (1962) when Ronald Reagan was president partly because the former president was directed by Frederick De Cordova who was also the director of The Tonight Show.
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Continuity: When Bonzo is passed through the window, he has a skirt on that soon disappears.
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Peter Boyd:
I'm going to make that old man change his attitude if it takes till I'm 90.
Hans Neumann: Good, Peter. Good, good.
Peter Boyd: Of course, Valerie probably won't be interested in me when I'm 90.
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Hans Neumann: Good, Peter. Good, good.
Peter Boyd: Of course, Valerie probably won't be interested in me when I'm 90.
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Lightweight comedy of a college professor (Ronald Reagan) trying to teach a chimpanzee right and wrong (with the aid of pretty Diana Lynn and fellow professor Walter Slezak) to prove an experiment in environment vs. genetics. Hardly anyone's finest hour as an actor, but "Bedtime For Bonzo" still entertains in a Saturday afternoon matinee sort of way. Totally innocuous and harmless film, passable acting, generally no better or worse than the many other "B" movies cranked out by Universal in the 1950's.