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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089218400796
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Label: Alpha Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Alpha Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 04, 2002
Running Time: 61 minutes
Studio: Alpha Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1940
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I love campy old movies featuring a guy in a gorilla costume, especially when the guy is supposed to be a real gorilla. A movie with a moth-eaten gorilla outfit is even better when paired with Boris Karloff as kindly Dr. Bernard Adrian.
Dr. Adrian has been diligently working on a serum that will cure paralysis. Unfortunately, the doctor makes his serum using human spinal fluid. Even more unfortunately, his "donors" need to be alive when he makes his serum. Most unfortunately, his ... Read More
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From Monogram Pictures comes this ridiculously funny, but very fun poverty row film. Boris Karloff, just one year after playing the Frankenstein monster for the last time in "Son Of Frankenstein, does his own mad doctor role in "The Ape". He stars as the seemingly kindly, old Dr. Adrian, a small town doctor and the subject of much talk amongst the town folks. They think the doctor is up to no good with all of his crazy experiments and they would like to be rid of him. Turns out that Adrian was ... Read More
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Dr. Bernard Adrian (Boris Karloff) has been experimenting in his lab for years, trying to perfect a serum that will cure paralysis. Unfortunately, he needs human spinal fluid and the townsfolk think he's a nut. Thankfully, a circus comes to town, complete with animals. A vengeful trainer decides that torturing the go-rilla that killed his father is a dandy idea. This results in the ape escaping it's cage, wringing the trainer's neck, and lumbering away for it's obligatory rampage. The unlucky trainer ... Read More
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Boris Karloff has always been one of my favorite actors and a double feature DVD is always welcome news. This DVD in particular contains one of Karloff's forgotten gems and possibly the silliest film he ever made.
"The Ape" (1940), made for Monogram, represents the nadir of Karloff's career. In the film he portrays a kindly doctor who seeks to cure ingénue Maris Wrixon of polio through injections of human spinal fluid. Of course, spinal fluid is difficult to obtain, particularly as the victim ... Read More
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