Word: apes
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...nearly blows her mother to smithereens, finally has the poor girl kidnaped. After doing penance in jail, he turns up again at her dressy wedding reception in a monkey suit of real fur, beating his chest and uttering wild animal cries. Then-Well, at moments, Morgan! goes so far ape that a viewer may wince a little, but Director Karel Reisz (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) quells resistance by assigning the mad-capital antics to two gifted young British actors, David Warner (London's hottest new Hamlet) and Vanessa Redgrave (daughter of Sir Michael). Playing their first important film...
...traditionally hates kissin' and gets his kicks by digging spurs into horseflesh seems equally ill-adapted to the times. The exquisitely contemporary hero is girl-happy, gadget-minded James Bond, whose legend has already tempted a host of imitators to bland larceny. Now five new spy spoofs reverently ape Bond, with more a-making to catch the rich financial fallout from Goldfinger and Thunderball...
...Rock is not designed to sustain human life; it is a "chunk of strategic geology." It has escaped Axis capture only because-the bitter story goes-an American insurance company did not want its corporate symbol compromised. The Rock's only happy denizens are the Barbary apes-sexually emancipated pensioners who seem to be contemptuously aware of the superstition that the British will never leave the Rock until the death of the last ape...
...pounding each other in their Bakelite-encased genitalia, while a third stands by yelling "Kill!" And this edifying activity presided over by a fourth who has the effrontery to keep the Bible in his office. Darwin must have been wrong. Man is not an improved strain of ape; when the Harold Johnsons of this world auspiciously fade away, man might perhaps rise to the level of the ape...
...Whitman's climactic hand-to-hand combat with the baboons' snarling leader. Though ferociously exciting in itself, this bout between man and beast in the wilderness only points up the failings of a movie that hasn't yet gone primitive when it suddenly goes ape...