Bedtime for Bonzo
The funniest new idea on film since "FRANCIS!"
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4/5/1951Runtime
83 minsOverview
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.
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A lighthearted screwball comedy where a professor's desperate bid to restore his reputation gets wonderfully complicated when a chimpanzee becomes an unexpected houseguest. It's pure 1950s charm, silly, earnest, and full of misadventure.
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Ronald Reagan
Professor Peter Boyd
Diana Lynn
Jane
Walter Slezak
Professor Hans Neumann
Lucille Barkley
Valerie Tillinghast
Jesse White
Babcock
Herbert Heyes
Dean Tillinghast
Herb Vigran
Lt. Daggett
Harry Tyler
Knucksy
Edward Clark
Fosdick (as Ed Clark)
Edward Gargan
Policeman (as Ed Gargan)
Joel Friedkin
Mr. De Witt
Brad Browne
Chief of Police
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