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(1980 TV Movie)

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5/10
Fun TV movie!!!
BandSAboutMovies27 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Rankin/Bass had some experience working with Japanese filmmakers after making King Kong Escapes, the Desi Arnaz Jr. Feature Marco, Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July, Willy McBean and His Magic Machine, The Bushido Blade (which has Mako, Sonny Chiba, James Earl Jones, Richard Boone and Laura Gemser all in the same movie), The Bermuda Depths and The Last Dinosaur there.

The last two movies we mentioned, as well as this one, were made with Tsuburaya Productions, the company that brought us Ultraman.

While this debuted on ABC on April 18, 1980, an extended version would later play Japanese theaters.

A rare albino gorilla has escaped somewhere in Bermuda and the hunter that caught it once before (Jack Palance!) is set to destroy it. Can Steven Keats (who was Bronson's son-in-law in Death Wish) and Céline Lomez (who was originally going to play Linda Thorson's part in Curtains) stop him in time?

This was directed by Tsugunobu "Tom" Kotani, who also made the aforementioned films The Bushido Blade, The Last Dinosaur, The Bermuda Depths and Pink Lady's Motion Picture. You better believe that I'm going to hunt down every single one of these movies.
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3/10
A.B.C.'s Movie of the Week: The Ivory Ape.
Captain_Couth16 August 2005
The Ivory Ape (1980) was just another cheesy Sunday Night movie that they used to show on A.B.C. I haven't seen this movie in ages. I remembered watching this movie with my brother and uncle. My brother and I didn't like the ape, But we like Jack Palance. He was a cool and shady hunter who wanted this rare albino ape (a dude in a bad Halloween costume). Some do gooders wanted to save the rare ape. The film was nothing more than a chance for Jack Palance to mug and grimace his way around a bad cast. Typical for these made-for-t.v.-movies. I was back handed by my dear uncle when I made some funny comments about the ugly simian.

Not worth seeking out unless you're a die hard Jack Palance during his "hard living" days (he did a lot of it, you can tell by his looks and mannerisms).
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