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The Gorilla

The Gorilla

4,8 /10 (29 Votes)
1939 EN 68 min

Overview

When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.

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Release date

26/05/1939

Votes

29

Popularity

0.4

A Ritz is afraid of nothing ... but ... THIS ... IS ... SOMETHING!

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

68 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-06-22

⭐ 4

Lionel Atwill is the wealthy "Walter Stephens" whose life has been threatened by the sinister "Gorilla". To thwart this, he engages the services of the "Defective Detectives" (Jimmy, Harry & Al Ritz) and what ensues is a slapstick horror movie with a man in a gorilla suit (or, could it be an actual ape?) and some pretty corny set piece comedy sketches strung together around Atwill and a rather under-used Bela Lugosi ("Peters"). Much of the plot is just gibberish, but the detectives have a good time, and that brings a limited amount of charm as they haplessly go about their deducing - and it is…

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