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Baitball Blogger

(46,780 posts)
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 10:20 PM Feb 2019

Oldtimers, I need your help remembering the title of a B movie - prob from the sixties.

It involves a lab or station located either in the Arctic or Antarctic. Throughout the movie, the outdoors was an inhospitable snowdrift. It started out as a suspense mystery movie because someone was killing off the people in the station. As these things go, there were tensions building as people were trying to figure out what was going on. The protagonist was young scientist who was caring for the lab animals. One chimpanzee was his sidekick and allowed out of the cages, and baboons that were wild were kept in cages.

I remember the end vividly. Almost everyone was dead, except for the lab guy and a noise startles him and he walks into the rec room to find the chimpanzee on a pool table. The animal was freaked out of his mind and throwing cue balls at the other doorway. He takes the chimp, and calms him. A few scenes later, they are both running for their lives and they walk out of the building for some reason. And they hear the door close and lock behind them. Through the window, in very slow creep mode, you see the face of a baboon frame the window. They were allowing themselves out of the cages at night and responsible for the killings.

So, what was the name of the movie?

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Oldtimers, I need your help remembering the title of a B movie - prob from the sixties. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 OP
Doesn't strike me as an ABC Movie of the Week . . . . . no_hypocrisy Feb 2019 #1
Omg it d_r Feb 2019 #10
OK, I was wrong. It was a TV movie . . . . no_hypocrisy Feb 2019 #11
No, I mean d_r Feb 2019 #12
A Cold Night's Death? JenniferJuniper Feb 2019 #2
I remember it a little differently, but that has to be it!!!! Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #3
"Bedtime for Bonzo"? Laffy Kat Feb 2019 #4
. Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #5
Darn, you spoiler you! defacto7 Feb 2019 #6
So true. Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #7
Google Says 'A Cold Night's Death'...1973 Me. Feb 2019 #8
That seems to be the right one. Baitball Blogger Feb 2019 #9

Baitball Blogger

(46,780 posts)
7. So true.
Sat Feb 23, 2019, 11:29 PM
Feb 2019

This was back in the day when big named stars could talk and talk and talk. So, yes, I really ruined the money shot for you.

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