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...Ramper's hair grew long, covered his body; he lost the power of articulate speech. Then some fishermen discovered him. They thought that he was a strange breed of polar ape. He was clapped into a cage, taken back to Germany, sold to a dime museum. A Professor Barbazin suspects that there is a human spark beneath the coat of fur, so he buys Captain Ramper. Speech and sanity are restored by shrewd operations; fur is shaved off electrically; and Captain Ramper becomes a man again, a popular hero. But the hurly-burly life of urban man disturbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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