The Monkey Mission (1981)

Second (out of three) made-for-TV Joe Dancer movies, has the hard-boiled private eye teaming up with a chimpanzee, named Gregor, and the trainer Jimmy Papadopolous, who happens to be an expert sneak thief, against an electronics genius of questionable repute, named Stump Harris, to steal back a priceless vase, looted from a family collection during World War II.