Tiki Tiki 52 years old

Canadian filmmaker Gerald Potterton utilizes extensive footage from the Soviet adventure film Dr. Abolit in his Tiki Tiki. Abolit boards a rocket with two monkeys and blasts off into space, bent on rescuing a group of monkey kids from extraterrestrial bandits. Framing the live-action storyline are a few animated cartoon sequences involving the efforts of a producer to sell his concept to an apelike movie mogul. This device works as effectively here as it did thirty years earlier in W.C. Fields' Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. As a payoff, the studio boss is revealed to be King Kong, who sees a lot of potential in a story about heroic simians. (allmovie.com)

Credits

Tiki Tiki Cast

Name Character
Peter Cullen He was 30, now 82 years old
Jean Shepherd He was 50, 78 years old when he died
Barry Baldaro
Ted Zeigler He was 45, 73 years old when he died
Joan Stuart Morris

Tiki Tiki Crew

Name Department
Gerald Potterton as Director. He was 40 (now 93) years old Directing
Tiki Tiki poster
Tiki Tiki (52 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, September 25, 1971
  • Runtime: 71 minutes