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Little Red Monkey (U.S. title: The Case of the Red Monkey) is a 1955 British thriller film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Richard Conte, Rona Anderson and Russell Napier. The screenplay was by Hughes and James Eastwood, based on the 1953 BBC Television series of the same name written by Eric Maschwitz .
Joy Nichols, Dick Bentley and Jimmy Edwards, stars of the hit 50s BBC radio comedy Take It From Here released this odd novelty record in 1953.
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Little Red Monkey: Directed by Bill Lyon-Shaw. With Honor Blackman, Donald Houston, Henzie Raeburn, Arthur Rigby. Scientists are being killed and a red monkey is spotted at the scene of the crime.
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The song Little Red Monkey was written by Jack Jordan and was first released by Frank Chacksfield's Tunesmiths with Jack Jordan in 1953. It was covered by Phil Kelsall and Jerry Murad's Harmonicats.
Sheet Music featured in the famous 1950's BBC Radio Series Take It From Here. The song is "Little Red Monkey" with words and music by Stephen Gale & Jack Jordan. Cover features programme stars Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nicholls.
In 1953, Nichols recorded the novelty song "Little Red Monkey" by Stephen Gale and Jack Jordan with Jimmy Edwards and Dick Bentley. This was played many times in the 1950s and early 60s on the BBC's radio request programme Children's Favourites.
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Little Red Monkey is an effective, modest Cold War-era thriller in which Conte plays a stereotypically hot headed American agent: ‘What am I supposed to do, sit around while you make a mess of things?’, he demands of Harrington at one point; and when Harrington tells Locklin, ‘Listen, Locklin. My instructions are to hand Dushenko over to ...
