The Ivory Ape (1980)
1h 44m
Running Time
April 15, 1980Release Date
The Ivory Ape (1980)
1h 44m
Running Time
April 15, 1980Release Date
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Plot.
An ivory ape escapes from a freighter and makes its way to Bermuda. Two anthropologists want to save it, but the local authorities hire a big-game hunter to track it down and kill it.
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Cast & Crew.
Jack Palance
Marc Kazarian
Steven Keats
Baxter Mapes
Cindy Pickett
Lil Tyler
Céline Lomez
Valerie 'Val' Lamont
Earle Hyman
Inspector St. George
Tsugunobu Kotani
Director
Derek Velez Partridge
Aubrey Range
Tricia Sembera
Vita Havermyer
Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Writer
William Overgard
Writer
David Man
Dr. Cole
Bernard Hoffer
Composer
Lou David
Roomie Pope
Maury Laws
Composer
Billy Horrigan
The Captain
Leonard Daniels
Smith
Yuzo Inagaki
Cinematographer
George Rushe
Wilkinson
John Truscott
Collins
John Lough
Trot Toomer
Jane Bainridge
Mother in Car
Charles Jeffers
Congo Father
Kevin Dill
Congo Son
Grace Rawlins
Congo Mother
Eston Rawlins
Congo Boy
Barbara Adams
Secretary
Marlene Butterfield
Newscaster
Courtney Floyd
Child in Car
Irving Wilkinson
Butler
Daniel Thomas
Cab Driver
Jules Bass
Executive Producer
Masaki Îzuka
Associate Producer
Benni Korzen
Associate Producer
Yuji Hiyoshi
Sound
Peter Politanoff
Art Direction
Jim Bigham
Second Assistant Director
Katzov Satsoya
Production Design
Osamu Fukuoka
Sound Assistant
Wendy Wank
Editor
Bob Elder
Sound Mixer
Jim Tatum Jr.
Sound Editor
Kaz Kazui
First Assistant Director
Details.
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Wiki.
The Ivory Ape is a 1980 Japanese-American action film co-produced by Rankin/Bass and Tsuburaya Productions. It was filmed in Bermuda, with a Japanese effects crew, and at Tsuburaya Studios in Tokyo.It was first broadcast on ABC on April 18, 1980, and later released theatrically in Japan (the theatrical version running four additional minutes).