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Director:
Robert Butler
Writers:
Joseph L. McEveety (screenplay)
Lila Garrett (story) ...
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Release Date:
17 March 1971 (USA) more
Genre:
Family | Comedy more
Tagline:
Look who's GONE BANANAS ! more
Plot:
A young man who works in the mailroom at a TV network wants to move up the corporate ladder but finds himself stymied by his selfish boss... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Monkeying Around with an Industry more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Kurt Russell ... Steven Post
Joe Flynn ... Francis X. Wilbanks
Harry Morgan ... E.J. Crampton
Wally Cox ... Mertons
Heather North ... Jennifer Scott
Alan Hewitt ... Farnsworth
Hayden Rorke ... Clifford

John Ritter ... Roger
Jack Bender ... Tom
Tom Anfinsen ... Dr. Schmidt
George N. Neise ... Network Executive
Edwin Reimers ... Announcer (as Ed Reimers)
Morgan Farley ... Advertising Executive
Glenn Dixon ... Sponsor
Robert Shayne ... Sponsor
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Rating Game (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
UK:U | USA:G (Approved No. 22775) | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | Iceland:L
Filming Locations:
Long Beach, California, USA

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: Steven's hair length fluctuates between shots. more
Quotes:
E. J. Crampton: Love that casting Francis! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in 1st Annual Mystery Science Theater 3000 Summer Blockbuster Review (1997) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
He's Gonna Make It more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Monkeying Around with an Industry, 2 September 2003
Author: koconnor-1 from Attleboro, MA

Nice, safe family comedy featuring a television network, a cute/funny chimp, and a young Kurt Russell in the prime of his Disney phase.

Kurt is a low-level employee with a big television network with high-level ideas. By shear chance, he discovers that his neighbor's pet chimp is able to correctly predict the big ratings winners for each week's programs, and surreptitiously uses the animal to move up within the organization.

The chimp demonstrating his disdain for poor programming (clearly enunciated raspberries, followed by screams of displeasure, and culminating in his throwing some destructive object at the screen) sent me into fits of laughter.

But it also gave me (as a seven year old) an inkling into how the television industry works, and thereby planted the seeds of a life-long interest in the boob tube. And to this day, I am still wondering what the subject matter of "Devil Dan" is, and why it was so much more of a winner program than "The Happy Harringtons"...

Get the kids away from "Nickelodeon" for a couple of hours with this campy treat...

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