Ronald Reagan is a college professor who seeks to prove "nurture' more important than "nature" by playing house with Diana Lynn (surrogate mother) and Chimpanzee - Bonzo. The homey environment will prove "bad" monkeys can be "good" monkeys (just like people) with a little family love and understanding! The premise is ludicrous, of course - but, it's really only done to set-up a situation to make a movie starring Bonzo the Chimp. Bonzo is fine. How is he supposed to know the story is illogical?
Since it has a chimpanzee to share scenes with, the movie is disjointed - for example, witness this sequence: Bonzo escapes into a tree, is joined by Reagan in an obviously different tree, drops eyeglasses to nowhere, jumps into the house in time for the next scene, then shocks everyone by escaping from the house! It all manages to looks even worse than it is; assisted, obviously, by a low budget.
** Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) Frederick De Cordova ~ Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak
Since it has a chimpanzee to share scenes with, the movie is disjointed - for example, witness this sequence: Bonzo escapes into a tree, is joined by Reagan in an obviously different tree, drops eyeglasses to nowhere, jumps into the house in time for the next scene, then shocks everyone by escaping from the house! It all manages to looks even worse than it is; assisted, obviously, by a low budget.
** Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) Frederick De Cordova ~ Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak