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...Woman puts a savage switch on the sly old joke about the monkey who notes hopefully that people look "almost simian...
...begins a parable both squalid and sublime. The greedy little punk displays the creature as "a monster trapped in Africa, half woman and half ape." When he cracks his whip she gibbers like a monkey, rattles the bars of her cage, jumps around in a tree. To ensure his income, he marries the monster and hustles her off to Paris, where he sells her as a stripper ("The Hairy Angel") to appease the public appetite for the peculiar. One day the poor thing finds herself pregnant. "Oh well," he reflects philosophically. "Maybe the baby will be a monster too. Then...
...yellow rocks that burn like low-grade coal. On the third day, oxygen gone, he discovers that the rocks release it when they are heated, and in jig time he rigs up a pressure cooker and replenishes his tanks. A few days later, led by the small South American monkey that shared his spaceship, he finds a spring of clear water, and in the water a plant that bears edible tubers...
...like Crusoe he soon comes across his Friday. How? Go to Mars and find out-it's well worth the trip. Death Valley, where the film was shot, really looks like another world. Actor Mantee, a former allround athlete from U.C.L.A., really looks like an astronaut. And the monkey really looks like a monkey. He looks, in fact, like the first cinemape of modern times who didn't learn to scratch himself at the Actors Studio...
Disembodied Monkeys Sir: Let us hope that those live, disembodied monkey brains [June 19] are not conscious. If they are, however, I believe Dr. White should be urged to volunteer his own brain for these ingenious experiments...