Bedtime for Bonzo

The funniest new idea on film since "FRANCIS!"

Duration: 83 min

Release date: 1951-04-05

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College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.

Comedy Family Romance

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as Professor Peter Boyd

as Professor Hans Neumann

Lucille Barkley

Lucille Barkley

as Valerie Tillinghast

as Dean Tillinghast

as Fosdick (as Ed Clark)

as Policeman (as Ed Gargan)

as Chief of Police

Elizabeth Flournoy

Elizabeth Flournoy

as Miss Swithen (as Elizabeth Flourney)

as Student (as Bill Mauch)

as Telephone Operator

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Frederick de Cordova

Frederick de Cordova

Russell A. Gausman

Russell A. Gausman

Carl E. Guthrie

Carl E. Guthrie

Director of Photography

Leslie I. Carey

Leslie I. Carey

Joan St. Oegger

Joan St. Oegger

Bernard Herzbrun

Bernard Herzbrun

Original Music Composer

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