Partially fictional anecdote, partially half-baked sociology, partially educational, partially advocational, The Naked Ape (1972) is a total package of entertainment and enlightenment. Based upon a book of hipster anthropology by writer Desmond Morris and produced for the screen by Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, this cinematic treatise on hair-free simians presents the human animal as an absurdly self-congratulatory being whose notions of superior civilization and rational psychology are never more than one instinctual impulse away from reverting to carnal chimp norms. Monkey see, monkey make whoopee.