The Barefoot Executive is a live-action Disney film released by Buena Vista Distribution in 1971 starring Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Wally Cox, Heather North and John Ritter , about a pet chimpanzee, named Raffles, who can predict the popularity of television programs. It was one of the "gimmick comedies" Disney was known for in the 1960s and 1970s, and was frequently shown on the Wonderful World of Disney in the 1980s. A satire of network television, the movie follows the adventures of an ambitious mailroom clerk, Steven Post at the fictional UBC Network who discovers his girlfriend Jennifer... Scott's pet chimpanzee has the supernatural ability to predict which television programs will receive the highest ratings, in which he blows a raspberry to shows that will bomb, or claps his hands in applause to shows that will be hits. Steven smuggles the chimp into the UBC building when he is being shown various movies to show, and watches as the chimp gives his vote from the camera room.
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| Release date: | March 17, 1971 |
| Directed by: | Robert Butler |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 96 Minutes |
| Genre: | Comedy |