Word: bonzo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sure I'm being a little hard on the jocks in the tweed jackets and LaCoste shirts, for though the multiflex can resemble a monkey-flex at times (with Bonzo the Chimp running post patterns), there is a horde of talented gridders playing Saturday's heroes for all eight Ivy teams providing all the grunts, second efforts and crack-back blocks that the Big Ten, Big Eight, or Big Sadist football fan craves...
...Cambridge, the current midnight show at the Orson Welles III is clearly motivated by the coming presidential sweepstakes. Bedtime for Bonzo is the attraction, starring non other than the former governor of California. Ronald Reagan is a college professor who raises a chimpanzee as his own son (or maybe it's the other we around). Sure to become a classic if the Death Valley Das Kid makes it into the Oval Office. The Orson Welles Complex also offers a treat for mystery fans on Friday and Saturday with a Raymond Chandler double feature of Farewell, My Lovely and The Long...
...also appeared in several A-quality productions, though never in a lead part. Some typical roles: admirer of a dying Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939), suitor to Shirley Temple in That Hagan Girl (1947) and a scientist who played second banana to a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951). Two roles won him acclaim: George Gipp, the doomed halfback of Knute Rockne, All American (1940), and Drake McHugh, the playboy whose legs are amputated needlessly by a sadistic doctor in King's Row (1941). As McHugh wakes from anesthesia, he speaks the line that became the title...
...film has almost no verbal humor. A Frenchman shouts insults at the knights, but he's nothing compared to the man in "The Argument Clinic," and the soundtrack compounds the problem by being substandard. Even the music (by ex-Bonzo Dog Band member Neil Innes) is lackluster, without any of the tang or catchiness of "The Lumberjack Song" or "Dennis More...
...records are of more uneven quality than the movie. The creative, at times even poignant, animation sequences of the film are replaced by music arranged by Neil Innes, once the presiding Bonzo of the Bonzo Dog Band. The music is catchy in its own right, including stirring versions of John Wesley's setting of Blake's "And Did Those Feet," and the original classics "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK" (with a chorus of Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the background), "Eric the Half-a-Bee" and "The Lupin Express...