The Monkey's Uncle

For the Three Stooges short film, see I'm a Monkey's Uncle.
The Monkey's Uncle
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRobert Stevenson
Written byTom August
Helen August
Produced byRon Miller
Walt Disney
StarringTommy Kirk
Annette Funicello
Leon Ames
Frank Faylen
Arthur O'Connell
CinematographyEdward Colman
Edited byCotton Warburton
Music byBuddy Baker
Production
company
Distributed byBuena Vista Distribution
Release date
  • August 18, 1965 (1965-08-18) (Los Angeles)[1]
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$4,000,000 (US/Canada rentals)[2]

The Monkey's Uncle is a 1965 American comedy film starring Tommy Kirk as genius college student Merlin Jones and Annette Funicello (former Mouseketeer from The Mickey Mouse Club) as his girlfriend, Jennifer. The title plays on the idiom "monkey's uncle" and refers to a chimpanzee named Stanley, Merlin's legal "nephew" (because of a legal arrangement resulting from an experiment to raise Stanley as a human) who otherwise has little relevance to the plot. Jones invents a man-powered airplane and a sleep-learning system.[3][4] The film is a sequel to 1964's The Misadventures of Merlin Jones.

  1. ^ "The Monkey's Uncle - Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
  2. ^ This figure consists of anticipated rentals accruing distributors in North America. See "Big Rental Pictures of 1965", Variety, 5 January 1966, p. 6
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference shepard was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Turner Classic Movies http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=83871