You're referring to the story of the Monkey King, which comes most directly from "Journey to the West," one of the most famous Chinese classical "novels" (the version we have today was written about 400 years ago). At the bare bones level, it tells the story of a Chinese monk who travels to India to collect Buddhist scriptures to take back to China. The novel, though, is madly allegorical and fantastic--the main characters are animal/human hybrids, and there's a healthy injection of ancient Chinese folktales and magic into the proceedings. The story of the Monkey King has been adapted, rewritten, alluded to, and ripped off in just about every existing medium of expressive communication, from movies to comic books to tv series. It's been adapted so many times that it's impossible to tell which version you're referring to. One highly entertaining entry point to the story, though, is Stephen Chiau's wildly ambitious, two-part cinematic reconfiguration from 1995, titled in English as "A Chinese Odyssey" (Part 1 is called "Cinderella" and Part 2 is "Pandora's Box"). Easily available from Hong Kong movie sources everywhere. Steve Fore At 06:55 AM 10/2/01 -0400, you wrote: >This sounds a little like one I saw as a child. American International >released it as "Alakazam the Great" but I don't recall the real title.... > >---- >For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: >http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html