The read
Critics rate it 27 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 80% of the 813 1960s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 27 points higher than audiences do.
62 audience votes
Key crew
- Marco FerreriDirector
- Rafael AzconaWriter
- Marco FerreriWriter
- Teo UsuelliOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ugo TognazziAntonio Semola
- Annie GirardotMaria
- Achille MajeroniMajoroni
- Filippo Pompa MarcelliBruno
- Ermelinda De FeliceSister Furgonicino
- Elvira PaoliniChambermaid in Paris
- Ugo RossiBaron Rossi
- Eva BelamiCast
- Marco FerreriPriest face in diapo in Africa (uncredited)
- Regina Elena BisioWoman at Hospital (uncredited)
- Jacques RuetDoctor in Paris
- Tonino CianciCast
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Themes
dark comedy
The Best Movies of 1964
The Ape Woman is #18 of 60
