
The antics of Sally, a pet chimpanzee, in the English countryside..

Cherry Kearton
United Kingdom

Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you are a film historian or you have a weirdly specific obsession with monkeys from the 1920s. Everyone else? You’re going to be bored to tears within five minutes. If you prefer your movies to have, you know, a plot, stay far away from this. It feels like someone just turned on...


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"Is it worth your time? Honestly, only if you are a film historian or you have a weirdly specific obsession with monkeys from the 1920s. Everyone else? You’re going to be bored to tears within five minutes. If you prefer your movies to have, you know, a plot, stay far away from this. It feels like someone just turned on a camera and hoped for the best while Sally poked at a tree stump. The whole thing feels incredibly loose. There isn't much of a script, just a chimp doing chimp things in the En..."


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