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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Disney
EAN: 0786936178142
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
MPN: D25729D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 08, 1967
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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/21/2002
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Dean Jones is suppurb, in every thing he does.I've never seen a movie of his that was't rated 5 stars in my book.Excellent,just excellent. Walt Disney movies were the best. Also Norman Tokar did excellent work in Don Knotts movies. Erleen
Rating:  -
Dean Jones was a Disney staple throughout the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in numerous comedies. This movie was one of Jones's first Disney movies. As a comedy this movie is relatively light, with most of the humor coming near the end of the movie.
Hank Dussard (Jones) has inherited a small farm in France with 480 olive trees. In typical American fashion, Dussard believes that he can make a decent living from so many olive trees. In a Disney movie nothing is ever simple, and it turns out that the cost of labor makes olive farming an expensive proposition. Most people who pick olives for a living use their large families to do so. Jones, a bachelor, has no such advantage, though local priest Father Sylvain (Maurice Chevalier, in his last movie appearance) keeps trying to fix him up with local beauty Maria Riserau (Yvette Mimieux, in one of her earliest roles).
Dussard was in the United States Air Force, where he trained monkeys for space flight. Now the monkeys have been retired as the United States has changed to manned space missions. Dussard was able to purchase the monkeys from the Air Force with the intent of using them to pick olives. The scene is set for a series of confrontations between a pair of local socialist leaders and Dussard.
I found the funniest portions of the movie to be in the last half hour. Up to that point there were a few humorous scenes, but the real laughs are near the end. This movie was relatively lightweight even by Disney standards, and I suspect this movie had a low budget. I personally consider this movie family friendly though at least one other reviewer has objected to a scene early in the movie where the butcher, who had romantic aspirations, kissed Maria without her consent. Maria strenuously objected to the kiss and I think most viewers will realize the scene was set up to create a false impression with Dussard and not to be funny.
I have never thought that Dean Jones was a very good actor. He usually plays a straight man for everyone else around him, and so he does here. However, Yvette Mimieux is charming and sweet and Maurice Chevalier is excellent, as always. While this movie is unlikely to make anyone's "best of" list, it has enough sweetness and charm that I like to watch it when I am looking for a fun movie that takes little thought to enjoy.
Viewers will have to consider that this movie was made in 1967 and our culture and our standards have changed since then. Perhaps this movie might provide a good opportunity to discuss the changes that have occurred in our society in the last forty years, assuming that someone would want to get into that level of philosophy while watching a lightweight Disney movie.
Rating:  -
You'd think a movie with four monkeys in it would be good, but even the monkeys suck. The only good parts are Yvette Mimieux and Maurice Chevalier. And Dean Jones is totally unappealing, especially opposite Ms. Mimieux. Dream on.
Rating:  -
We bought the movie to watch with our young children. In the first 1 minute there is a scene of grabing and kissing a girl againts her will(I guess this was funny in the 60's), there is also a riot that breaks out where the men are fighting in the streets, punching, hitting ect.. Then there's the wonderful scene where a person is scared into leaving the farm by being told the former owner torchered and murdered his wives and now the house is haunted by their ghost. Then there is the dishonest real esate man who plots to gain ownership of the farm by illegal and dishonest means. Oh yes there is also 4 monkeys. Not a great family film.
Rating: -
I loved this movie. The cast is wonderful, especially Yvette Mimieux and those darling chimps. The scenery is very beautiful and evokes a safe and light-hearted mood. Disney has made some very good movies involving animals (others being "The Three Lives of Thomasina" and "The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit.") True, the DVD does not have a lot of the extras that people are used to, but if you are a Disney fan who enjoys a good clear picture, don't let that bother you.
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