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| Sensationalist poster for a rather dull film, Curt Siodmak's Bride of the Gorilla |
QUICK REVIEW:
One night deep in the jungle, an unpopular man of wealth dies under mysterious circumstances. His wife remarries quickly; - unfortunately with a man, who soon will only stay in the jungle, persuaded by black magic and plant-toxins that he is a gorilla!
Despite this fascinating obsession, Bride is a luckless acquaintance. Cover images are inter-cut with unconvincing studio jungle-trash and squarely dumb lines such as the police commissioner's (played by Lon Chaney, Jr.): "I know my jungle!"
Raymond Burr (Perry Mason (1957-66)), however, does a nice job in the gorilla lead.
The film is one of the more suggestive creature features, as you never really see anything much in that department, which will disappoint many audiences, and the film has also mostly been revived for ridicule since its creation.
A shame, since it has some nice talent involved, besides Chaney, Jr. and Burr, the film is directed by German Curt Siodmak, who wasn't much of a director, but who wrote great scripts for many films, most notably The Wolf Man (1941).
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| Raymond Burr and Barbara Peyton in Curt Siodmak's Bride of the Gorilla |
Watch this trailer, with director Joe Dante (Gremlins (1984)) talking interesting, lurid trivia about Bride
Budget: Unknown
Box office: Unknown
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