Tuesday, February 4, 2014

The Gorilla [1939]

[Originally posted on Facebook on October 30, 2013]


On Keith's birthday we let him pick the movie from a fifty pack selection of "horror classics". Now there were some genuinely good movies on here including "Dracula", "House On Haunted Hill" and even "Metropolis" alongside MST3K fodder like "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" and "The Screaming Skull". Ultimately we ended up with "The Gorilla", a vehicle for a comedy trio called the Ritz Brothers who really, really wished they were the Marx Brothers. They weren't even the Three Stooges. Alongside a nonsensical plot about a serial killer called "The Gorilla", some millionaire with financial troubles, and the totally coincidental escape of an actual gorilla from the local zoo, the only redeeming parts of this movie were Bela Lugosi doing his Bela Lugosi thing and the perpetually high-strung maid played by Patsy Kelly who was 1000x funnier than the Ritz Brothers to the point where a comparison should make them ashamed.

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