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...accent and his snow-white hair, Professor Herbert Marcuse of the University of California's San Diego campus seems too charmingly ge nial to be a revolutionary. He coos over the fine fur of his rust-colored cat, Freddie, and holds a lifetime membership in the San Diego Zoo, where he affectionately favors owls, elephants and hippopotamuses. Yet whether in Berkeley or Berlin, today's youthful radicals, who are challenging the most basic premises of industrial society, increasingly turn to the writings of the aging (he will be 70 in July) German-born philosopher to find a satisfactory...
...best they've got, however, is not dumb men but clever monkeys, hideous primates in leather jackets who periodically catch humans in nets for laboratory experiments or to put in cages at the local zoo. Heston's companions are quickly done in, and soon he is pleading for his life before the head orangutan (Maurice Evans), who wants him gelded and then melded into the tribe of cavemen. Aided by two empathetic chimpanzees (Roddy MacDowall and Kim Hunter), Heston eventually makes his escape across forbidden territory where no monkey hand has ever set foot. There he learns...
Nichols' dilemma is that of the director with ideas, but not enough knowledge of craft to successfully execute them. For Nichols, each cut becomes a major problem of how to move from one shot to the next, a question of alternatives and careful choice: a zoo scene ends dismally on coy shots of monkeys; a zoom pull-back of Benjamin waiting on campus for Elaine is effective until we realize that Nichols has included it in order to effect a trick dissolve transition to the next scene; unable to end a breakfast scene legitimately, Nichols covers it with an easy...
...from one scene to another and quick jump cuts from faces to bodies and back again, yet never consistently settles on a style. There is even a disappointing touch of TV situation comedy. A domestic argument ends with the toast popping out of the toaster, a visit to the zoo features the inevitable cute chimp mugging in its cage...
...life is a mess; He may aspire to faithfulness But rarely is he known to snub A lady member of the club. The trouble is, this information Is all from jungle observation. When Reynolds wants a closer view He's forced to study in a zoo, And there like men, the apes in cages Are prone to sulks and lethal rages, Turn homo and refuse to play With any girl who comes their way, Lose all desire to drink or dance, Fall in a catatonic trance...