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A crazed scientist accidentally turns himself into a half ape, half human creature, and scrambles to find a cure.A crazed scientist accidentally turns himself into a half ape, half human creature, and scrambles to find a cure.A crazed scientist accidentally turns himself into a half ape, half human creature, and scrambles to find a cure.
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- 1 nomination
J. Farrell MacDonald
- Police Capt. O'Brien
- (as J. Farrel MacDonald)
Ernest Morrison
- Copyboy
- (as Sunshine Sammy Morrison)
Charlie Hall
- Barney - Photographer
- (uncredited)
George Kirby
- Townsend - Butler
- (uncredited)
Ray Miller
- Police Detective
- (uncredited)
William Ruhl
- Martin - Editor
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen photographer Billie Mason (Louise Currie) and journalist Jeff Carter (Wallace Ford) are leaving for Dr. Brewster's (Bela Lugosi) house, Billie jokingly calls Jeff "Mr. Brisbane". In the banter, she was referring to Arthur Brisbane (1864-1936), who was known as the greatest newspaper journalist of his time.
- GoofsAt the 40-minute mark, as Jeff Carter is walking through a doorway he removes his hat twice.
- Quotes
Agatha Brewster: Most spirits are honest, gentle and kind, and only want to bring happiness to humans. But a few are evil and, having been wicked in life, are wicked in death, and only haunt the scenes of desperate crimes, reveling in murder.
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the film a mysterious character who has appeared intermittently throughout the film introduces himself as "the author of the story" and winds up a car window with the words "THE END" printed on it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Lock Up Your Daughters (1951)
Featured review
The Ape Man (1943) **1/2
One of Bela Lugosi's low budgeted Monogram films, THE APE MAN is entertaining in a so-bad-it's-good way. It's a riot to see poor Bela, so down on his luck by this point that he needed to act in anything just in order to eat, swaying and crouching about in a bad wig and beard, acting like he's "part ape" due to an experiment gone awry. And trying desperately to find some human spinal fluid to inject into himself so he may be able to straighten up again and lose his simian tendencies. If not for the stamina of Lugosi, the film would be intolerable. But he puts more energy into this crazy role than it deserves and keeps us entertained by being both effective at some times and unintentionally humorous at others. This one's not particularly well paced, and we've got the typical "hardnosed reporter/photographer" deal getting in the way of things every so often. There's also a decidedly screwy explanation offered at the end of the day for all these strange goings-ons which is not appreciated by this viewer. But there are far worse ways to spend a Saturday Night at the Monster Movies. **1/2 out of ****
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- Also known as
- The Gorilla Strikes
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- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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