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The Monkey's Uncle is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Robert Stevenson released in USA on 18 august 1965 with Tommy Kirk
The Monkey's Uncle (1965)
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Add to a movie listThe Monkey's Uncle is a 1965 Walt Disney production starring Tommy Kirk as genius college student Merlin Jones and Annette Funicello as his girlfriend, Jennifer. The title plays on the idiom "monkey's uncle" and refers to a chimpanzee named Stanley, Merlin's legal "nephew" (a legal arrangement resulting from an experiment to raise Stanley as a human); Stanley otherwise has little relevance to the plot. Jones invents a man-powered airplane and a sleep-learning system. The film is a sequel to the 1964 film The Misadventures of Merlin Jones.
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Midvale College is told that a wealthy man, Mr. Astorbilt (Arthur O'Connell), will give a large donation, but he has a strange request — he challenges the school to build a man-powered flying machine. If they succeed by a certain date, they get the donation, otherwise it will go to a rival school.Actors
Tommy Kirk
(Merlin Jones)
Annette Funicello
(Jennifer)
Leon Ames
(Judge Holmsby)
Frank Faylen
(Mr. Dearborne)
Arthur O'Connell
(Darius Green III)
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