Mystery 70's chiller with intelligent chimps?

I'm trying to identify a great film I saw in the mid-to-late 70's on TV that was made in the late 60s/early to mid 70s (I believe), that had some scientists doing experiments on chimpanzees who were named after world conquerors such as Alexander the Great & Julius Caesar (the chimps, not the scientists lol). Things naturally go awry, and the last shot was a chilling one of the final scientist left alive locked in a room, and a chimp's face looking in through the door's window. Any clues??? Cheers!

Crikey, I hope someone solves this one because it sounds right up my chimp house as it were.

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So do I! I have the feeling the lab/experimental building was somewhere chilly, like the arctic, but not sure...

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http://www.monkeyconspiracy.com/thelist.htm

I went through this extensive list and it is either not there or I missed it. This list doesn't have TV movies, maybe it's that.

I have to say this sounds like a tv episode of something like Tales Of The Unexpected or Hammer House Of Horror, one of those type programmes that were quite popular in the 70's and early 80's over here. I don't know if it is, but that'd be my guess.

Of course, I suppose it's just a coincidence that a chimpanzee character named Caesar (Roddy McDowell as an adult) played an important role in The Planet of the Apes series of movies.

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Yeah...just a coincidence.

Are you sure, Columbo, or is this just a ploy to get the chimps to confess?

Not unless the last shot of one of the Planet of the Apes movies has 'a scientist left alive locked in a room, and a chimp's face looking in through the door's window' ...

Heck maybe it was Conquest or Battle eh. Who knows...don't remember that being the final shot on either though, and I own all em'.

I don't remember it either, but I would have hoped that they actually showed a significant moment in the sequels. Then again, it does sound semi-familiar as a TV show and as some frosty location (which would add to the concept of it being TV).

The downbeat ending sounds like something more likely from a TV movie or an anthology series, or anthology movie with several stories.

I had seen a similar movie which is set entirely in a building, where bunch of employees play this Role Playing game after midnight. Their task is to track down a hidden object.

Until somehow experimental ape shows up and starts killing them one by one..

I had seen this when I was a kid.. I remember enjoy it a lot..

Shakma would be your movie genesis_pig. Some other movies that come to mind. Project X, Link, Monkey Shines, Primal Rage, and In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro but these were all made in the 80's.

I thought of Project X too.. but no killer chimps in that.

Yeah, I know it's none of these. I have them. I don't recall this movie at all, so I don't suppose I've seen it. It sounds interesting, though.

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The movie you were looking for is called:


"A Cold Night's Death"

And if you do a search on google you can even find sites to watch it online.

Wow!! I too have been looking for this film ever since I saw it as a teenager! What's more it was in Germany, so the title was something completely different!!
Thanks guys for solving this mystery: A Cold Night's Death it is!
(Now to find it on DVD, hmmm... )