Bye Bye Monkey (1978)

Director
Marco Ferreri

Main cast
Gérard Depardieu; Marcello Mastroianni; James Coco; Abigail Clayton; Geraldine Fitzgerald

Genres
Comedy, Foreign

Description
A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it.


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