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Cissy and David have drinks together and dance to tribal music in the house, eventually ending up in the mafu cage. Cissy chains David to shackles on the wall, which he assumes is a joke, but she proceeds to lock him inside. Cissy proceeds to study David as an anthropological subject.
With Lee Grant, Carol Kane, Will Geer, James Olson. Ellen, a successful astronomer, cares for her mentally-ill sister, Cissy, who keeps a variety of primates in the home they inherited from their anthropologist father. When Ellen begins a romance, Cissy's jealousy proves deadly.
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- Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Karen Arthur
- 1979-09
Synopsis. After their anthropologist father dies, leaving them alone in Africa, Ellen has the responsibility of taking care of her mentally ill sister Cissy. Cissy amuses herself by drawing pictures of the primates she keeps in cages and then killing them. Ellen is an astronomer, and longing for some normal companionship, she begins a romance ...
- Karen Arthur
- Lee Grant
May 31, 2022 · Astronomer Ellen (Lee Grant) is the daughter of a now-deceased primate anthropologist, who left behind a home crammed with African tribal idols, animal skins, fetishes, plants, and a large animal cage. The dead man also produced another daughter, Cissy (Carol Kane), childish and captivating at times but quite crazy.
- Karen Arthur
- Charles Cassady
- Code Red
Dec 16, 2015 · Ellen and Cissy (Lee Grant, Carol Kane) are two sisters living together in a dilapidated mansion, where they keep a pet ape named Mafu locked in a cage that sits in their living room. One day Ellen finds that Mafu has died so at the insistence of Cissy, who says she will kill herself unless they get another one, she goes to a local zoologist ...
Both Cissy and Ellen are responsible for their cages. There's something about being socialized as a woman that makes this dynamic so easy to fall into. In a patriarchal society, and in abusive upbringings, people learn how to get their needs met.
Jun 25, 2019 · In a remote, decrepit mansion decorated like an African jungle, astronomer Ellen (Grant) tends to her younger sister, Cissy (Kane), who has been allowed to grow up without any kind of societal restrictions and spends much of her time with their pet orangutans, who are all named Mafu (thus the title) until Cissy eventually loses her temper and ke...
