Going Bananas

Aug 5, 1987

1h 35m

★ 3.0

Go totally bananas with Dom DeLuise and an outrageous talking chimp on the world's wackiest safari!

Overview

An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily 'Dyn-O-Mite!', but this silly monkey business is decent family fun.

Genres

Comedy

Family

Production Companies

Golan-Globus Productions

The Cannon Group

Going Bananas Trailers

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Cast

Big Bad Joe Hopkins

Dom DeLuise

Mozambo

Jimmie Walker

Ben McNamara

David Mendenhall

Bonzo

Deep Roy

Palermo

Warren Berlinger

Captain Mackintosh

Herbert Lom

Ship's Captain

Len Sparrowhawk

First Mate / Clown #2

Peter J. Elliott

Sergeant Abdul

Fats Dibeco

Cake Waiter

Graham Armitage

Robert Anderson, American Ambassador

Mike Westcott

Clown #1

Philip Van der Byl

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