"the Naked Ape"
September, 1973
"The Naked Ape"Desmond Morris' influential book The Naked Ape, although a runaway best seller, is hardly the sort of work one would expect to be turned into a hit movie. It's a scientific study, drawing on anthropology, zoology and sociology, that propounds a theory about how man got to be the way he is today. But to Donald Driver, director and playwright (Status Quo Vadis), it was a challenge he felt compelled to take on."When I read the book, I just saw it as this film," Driver says....