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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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02.14.09
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Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people.
Movie Tagline:
He keeps human life in test tubes, and prowls at night in the skin of an ape!
Title: Ape, The
Release Date: September 30, 1940
Runtime: 62 mins
Genre: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 4.1
Brimstone Pit Rating: 5.1 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With A
MPAA Rating: Approved
Director(s):
William Nigh
Cast:
Boris Karloff ...Dr. Bernard Adrian
Maris Wrixon ...Miss Frances Clifford
Gene O'Donnell ...Danny Foster
Dorothy Vaughan ...Mother Clifford
Gertrude Hoffman ......
Henry Hall ...Sheriff Jeff Halliday
Selmer Jackson ...Dr. McNulty
Jessie Arnold ...Mrs. Brill, Willie's Mother
Billy Bletcher ...Short & grouchy posse man with deep voice & dark...
Harry C. Bradley ...Quinn, The Druggist
George Cleveland ...Mr. Howley, Circus Caretaker
Ray Corrigan ...The Ape
Pauline Drake ...young Girl
Mary Field ...Mrs. Mason
Gibson Gowland ...Posse Member
Julia Griffith ...Townswoman
I. Stanford Jolley ...Ape Trainer
Stan Jolley ...Boy in Soda Shop
Jack Kennedy ...Deputy Tomlin
Donald Kerr ...Citizen Carrying Mauled Ape Trainer
Philo McCullough ...Henry Mason
Buddy Swan ...Willie
Minerva Urecal ...Townswoman
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
William T. Lackey
Writer(s):
Adam Shirk
Curt Siodmak
Curt Siodmak
Richard Carroll
Composer(s):
Edward J. Kay
Movie Soundtrack(s):
"Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves)"
"Auld Lang Syne"
More Movie Taglines:
- He keeps human life in test tubes, and prowls at night in the skin of an ape!
- These cold eyes have watched a thousand men die screaming!
Movie Trivia:
- The play opened in Los Angeles, California, USA on 13 December 1927.
IMDB Links:
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Keywords:
Circus, Ape, Mad Scientist, Serum, Cure ...[more]
Keywords All:
Scientist, Spinal Fluid, Rock Throwing, Doctor, Mutant, Shot To Death, Wheelchair Bound, Killer Ape, Mistress, Rifle, Medical, Ends With Kiss, Coroner, Paralysis, Loss Of Husband, Wheelchair, Posse, Gunfire, Affair, Small Town Life, Gorilla, Impersonation, Disabled Person, Experiment, Death Of Title Character, Animal Attack, Costume, Mischievous Child, Monster Movie, Searching For Cure, Sheriff, Double Life, Fire, Loss Of Family, Poverty, Housekeeper, Stabbed In The Back, Public Domain, Knife, Murder, Dog, Ape Man, Unfaithful Husband, Based On Play
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Rating: 5.1 out of 10.0 - 69 votes cast total
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