Her Primitive Man (1944)

Director
Charles Lamont

Main cast
Louise Allbritton; Robert Paige; Robert Benchley; Edward Everett Horton; Helen Broderick

Genres
Comedy

Description
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.


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