Pluskylang Great Film overall

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

SnoopyStyle It's 1938 in the South Pacific. Jake Cutter (Stephen Collins) is a former Flying Tigers pilot flying his seaplane Cutter's Goose with his one-eyed dog Jack. With drunken mechanic Corky (Jeff MacKay), he operates out of the French island Bora Gora run by the supportive Bon Chance Louie (Roddy McDowall) who owns the Monkey Bar and Hotel. One day, he comes to the defense of performer Sarah Stickney White (Caitlin O'Heaney) who turns out to be an American secret agent. The Nazis are chasing the legendary Gold Monkey which is made of a heat-resistant alloy, guarded by deadly apes, and located on a volcanic island. They recruit Japanese Princess Koji (Marta DuBois) who is half Irish. Todo (John Fujioka) is her samurai henchman. The second episode ends with Jake finding a small brass monkey which becomes the icon of the show. The actual giant golden monkey is never found and believed to be a myth. There is also Reverend Willie Tenboom (John Calvin) who is not actually a man of God and in reality a Nazi operative with murky motives.Following the success of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', ABC brings this 30s style action adventure to TV. The pilot is solid with some odd camp and plenty of action adventure. It's a lower-level sillier version of those old serials. It's more like 'Temple of Doom'. The Gold Monkey serves as a great McGuffin. The rest of the season suffers without that McGuffin. It becomes a story of the week. Some of it works but plenty do not. The show needs an objective to drive it. It's not actually a procedural and there is nothing connecting the stories from week to week. Stephen Collins is great back in the day. Caitlin O'Heaney looks like a younger Lesley Ann Warren. The most fun is Jack who always has the best bit like losing his glass eye in a card game. This show is basically a fun old style action adventure movie and then the show tries to milk stories out for the rest of the season.

billk51 Well, Herthh, you're entitled to your long, senseless and mostly incoherent opinion. It's good to see that you're a fan of the eight copy-cat prime time crime dramas currently ruling the fading major networks."Gold Monkey" had a great cast of talented actors who had strong chemistry together. That's why it developed such a strong group of devotees during its short life time. The Kirk, Spock and McCoy characters could have been plunked down into almost any plot and had a hit because of the appealing interaction between them.If you didn't find the relationships between Jake and Corky and Jake and Sarah appealing then you're just not a 30's kind of guy.

GardnerJustin Man, I was starting to think I was crazy when I'd tell my friends about this show and none of them would remember it. I was born in 75, so all I remember about the show was that it was in "the islands," as my grandpa calls the area. The guy flew the seaplane and had the one eyed dog, and had a leather jacket and crusher cap. We'd always get drunk in college and watch 7th Heaven, and I'd bring this show up. Not a single person I've met in over 10 years has remembered it. And I remember their hangout, just not a lot of details. I've also been reminded of the show when I've watched 1930s and 40s adventure movies. I can't review its quality. But I sure am glad to even know the correct title now. I'll have to see what I can find in regards to this show.

RedRaven "Tales of the Gold Monkey" was a fun romp of a show. Rather than being a rip-off of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," it was a show inspired by classic movies, such as "Only Angels Have Wings," with a great cast including Stephen Collins, Caitlin O'Heaney, Jeff MacKay, and the late Roddy McDowell. Running only one season, the show never made it into syndication, although the USA Network ran it in the late 80's.