Bride of the Gorilla (1951)

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Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Topic Started: May 9 2009, 07:59 AM (53 Views)
Laughing Gravy	May 9 2009, 07:59 AM Post #1
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,073 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	Raymond Burr and Barbara Payton have the hots for each other; he's a plantation manager somewhere in Central America (or South America or New Jersey or someplace, they don't say) and she's the wife of the plantation owner, so Raymond kills the old fart by tossing him on a snake. Burr is seen by a creepy old plantation witch (Gisela Werbisek, who seems to be about 200 years old and is trying very hard to be Maria Ouspenskaya) who uses a witch plant to curse him and make him think he's a gorilla. So no sooner does he marry th' widow Payton than he's spending his wedding night cruising the jungle eating goats while local Spanish(!) police commissioner Lon Chaney, Jr. wanders around talking about jungle demons. This film was written and directed by Curt Siodmak, who wrote The Wolf Man and who thought he was writing The Wolf Man again, only duller. Sadly, for all the daffy dialog and ridiculous situations and the film's 62-minute brevity, it still crawls by. Fave moments: Chaney constantly refers to the Mexican peasants as "my people" but the one time he tries to speak Spanish he sounds as if he'd never heard the language aloud before. Babs tells her hubby and Raymond, "Don't fight before dinner." Raymond tells his cute mistress, "Life runs away too fast if you don’t hold onto it with both hands!” Not the worst movie we've ever seen (it's okay, actually) it's just disappointing after Cat-Women of the Moon. But what film wouldn't be? P.S. I forgot to mention Tom Conway embarrasses himself by playing the jungle doctor who also has the hots for Barbara.


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