Up from the Ape (1975)
84 min
A documentary based on Robert Ardrey's books that presents 15 million years of human evolution. The author believes that man began killing systematically 30,000 years ago when the Cro-Magnon Man killed off the Neanderthal Man because the latter was different. Man has been killing ever since. This very rare and most unusual docudrama with a cast made up entirely of men in ape suits is based on the work of the impossibly pompous anthropologist/ screenwriter Robert Ardrey, who attempts to unpack the origins and evolution of the killer instinct.
- Release date
- January 29, 1975
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Anthony Zerbe
- Paula Crist as Earthling Throwback
Crew
- Walon Green · Director
- Mel Stuart · Director
- Robert Ardrey · Writer
- Robert Larson · Producer
- Mel Stuart · Producer
- Lalo Schifrin · Composer
- Gil Hubbs · Cinematographer
- Albert Kihn · Cinematographer
- José Louis Mignone · Cinematographer
- David Myers · Cinematographer
- Robert K. Lambert · Editor