The Monkey's Uncle (1965)

Directed by

Robert Stevenson

Genre

family film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

G

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A college student named Merlin Jones invents a human-powered airplane and a sleep learning machine. He also has a chimpanzee as his legal nephew. The story follows his comedic adventures with his girlfriend Jennifer.

light-heartedwhimsicalgimmickybreezycampysillyeasygoingplayful

What happens

The Monkey's Uncle is a 1965 American comedy film starring Tommy Kirk as genius college student Merlin Jones and Annette Funicello (former Mouseketeer from The Mickey Mouse Club) as his girlfriend, Jennifer. The title plays on the idiom "monkey's uncle" and refers to a chimpanzee named Stanley, Merlin's legal "nephew" (because of a legal arrangement resulting from an experiment to raise Stanley as a human) who otherwise has little relevance to the plot. Jones invents a man-powered airplane and a sleep-learning system. The film is a sequel to 1964's The Misadventures of Merlin Jones. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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