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Release Date: 18 February, 2003 Retail Price: $7.98 OUR Price: $7.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Bride of the Gorilla Reviews
Barney goes ape
Klaas Van Gelder plantation owner loves his wife Dina (Barbra Payton). She is also loved from afar by the family doctor, Dr. Viet (Tom Conway). Yes and she is loved by the hired hand, Barney Chavez.
Barney seizes an opportunity to bump off old Klaas and take Dina for him self. In the process he jilts the daughter of a sorceress. Yes, the same sorceress that observed Barney's treachery from the bushes. This is too much so the sorceress cursed Barney and turns him into a gorilla by night.
Will Barney survive?
Does Dina love hairy leading men?
This 1951 movie may have been inspired in part by "The Cat People" (1942), as it is just as much a psychological thriller as a revenge monster movie.
This film has many major actors such as [Raymond Burr as Barney Chavez] (From "Godzilla" 1956); he was not bad looking in his youth. Then there is [Paul Cavanagh as Klaas Van Gelder] (from "The Kennel Murder Case" (1933); he is barley recognizable after 20 years. We even have the master at conversion [Lon Chaney Jr. as Commissioner Taro] (our favorite wolfy); this time he plays a perfectly normal person who is torn between two cultures.
Monkey Shines...
Raymond Burr (Godzilla, Rear Window, TVs Perry Mason, Ironside) is Barney Chavez, south american plantation foreman and babe magnet. He's been having an affair with his boss' wife Dina (Barbara Payton), while stringing along a beautiful native gal. Barney kills his boss by getting a poisonous python (?!) to bite him. He quickly marries Dina and lives happily ever after.... NOT! Unfortunately for ol' Barn, a servant woman, who just happens to be a witch, witnessed the murder. She decides to use her dark arts to turn Barney into a go-rilla! He begins longing for the jungle and slipping out at night to lumber through the trees. Police commissioner Tora (Lon Chaney jr.) waxes philosophical as he attempts to solve the homicide. Not bad, but I kept asking myself, "If Barney is such a total creep, why didn't he just marry Dina and fool around with that native cutie on the side?" Oh well, I'll never know. Worth a peek...
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