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A crazed scientist accidentally turns himself into a half ape, half human creature, and scrambles to find a cure.A crazed scientist accidentally turns himself into a half ape, half human creature, and scrambles to find a cure.A crazed scientist accidentally turns himself into a half ape, half human creature, and scrambles to find a cure.
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J. Farrell MacDonald
- Police Capt. O'Brien
- (as J. Farrel MacDonald)
Ernest Morrison
- Copyboy
- (as Sunshine Sammy Morrison)
Charlie Hall
- Barney - Photographer
- (uncredited)
George Kirby
- Townsend - Butler
- (uncredited)
Ray Miller
- Police Detective
- (uncredited)
William Ruhl
- Martin - Editor
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen photographer Billie Mason (Louise Currie) and journalist Jeff Carter (Wallace Ford) are leaving for Dr. Brewster's (Bela Lugosi) house, Billie jokingly calls Jeff "Mr. Brisbane". In the banter, she was referring to Arthur Brisbane (1864-1936), who was known as the greatest newspaper journalist of his time.
- GoofsAt the 40-minute mark, as Jeff Carter is walking through a doorway he removes his hat twice.
- Quotes
Agatha Brewster: Most spirits are honest, gentle and kind, and only want to bring happiness to humans. But a few are evil and, having been wicked in life, are wicked in death, and only haunt the scenes of desperate crimes, reveling in murder.
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the film a mysterious character who has appeared intermittently throughout the film introduces himself as "the author of the story" and winds up a car window with the words "THE END" printed on it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Lock Up Your Daughters (1951)
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Ape Man, The (1943)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
No, this isn't Citizen Kane but it is a fairly entertaining Monogram flick that works in large part thanks to Bela Lugosi's performance. In the film Lugosi plays a scientist doing strange experiments and soon finds himself turning into an ape. Along with the help of another doctor he must try and find spinal fluid that can turn him back.
Without the benefit of Lugosi in the main role then this film would be pretty awful but with the great actor in the lead we at least get a fine performance and a fun one at that. If you think too hard about it you might get depressed but it is rather fun seeing Lugosi in the bad "ape wig", which covers most of his face and some of his body. The make up effects are rather lame and cheap but that just adds to the charm and fun nature of the film and Lugosi's performance. I'm sure the star knew he was working with junk but that didn't stop him from giving it his all and you can't help but respect him for that.
As for the rest of the film, the performances are rather bland, direction slight and the story is unoriginal to the max.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
No, this isn't Citizen Kane but it is a fairly entertaining Monogram flick that works in large part thanks to Bela Lugosi's performance. In the film Lugosi plays a scientist doing strange experiments and soon finds himself turning into an ape. Along with the help of another doctor he must try and find spinal fluid that can turn him back.
Without the benefit of Lugosi in the main role then this film would be pretty awful but with the great actor in the lead we at least get a fine performance and a fun one at that. If you think too hard about it you might get depressed but it is rather fun seeing Lugosi in the bad "ape wig", which covers most of his face and some of his body. The make up effects are rather lame and cheap but that just adds to the charm and fun nature of the film and Lugosi's performance. I'm sure the star knew he was working with junk but that didn't stop him from giving it his all and you can't help but respect him for that.
As for the rest of the film, the performances are rather bland, direction slight and the story is unoriginal to the max.
- Michael_Elliott
- Oct 12, 2008
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- Also known as
- The Gorilla Strikes
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- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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