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Jungle Woman * (1944, Evelyn Ankers, J Carrol Naish, Acquanetta, Samuel S Hinds, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 5241

‘RAPTUROUS BEAUTY!… FURY OF A BEAST!’ Director Reginald LeBorg’s hilariously banal, incredibly cheap-looking 1944 Universal Pictures sequel to 1943’s Captive Wild Woman has an almost identical story of what happens after a second mad scientist, […]

Apr, 02

Captive Wild Woman ** (1943, Evelyn Ankers, Acquanetta, John Carradine, Martha Vickers, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Fay Helm) – Classic Movie Review 5239

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1943 horror movie stars John Carradine as mad scientist Dr Sigmund Walters, who is experimenting in glandular research and transfuses a woman’s blood into the veins of Cheela, the circus ape. Then, […]

Apr, 02

Gorilla at Large *** (1954, Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J Cobb, Lee Marvin, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 5184

‘You’ve always been this alert, Shaughnessy?’ – Lee J Cobb playing Detective Sergeant Garrison. ‘Always on my toes!’- Lee Marvin as Policeman Shaughnessy. ‘Well, get off ’em. You’re a cop, not a ballet dancer.’ – Detective Sergeant […]

Mar, 21

The Bride and the Beast [Queen of the Gorillas] * (1958, Charlotte Austin, Lance Fuller, Johnny Roth, William Justine, Gil Frye, Jeanne Gerson, Steve Calvert) – Classic Movie Review 4218

Charlotte Austin stars as The Bride who turns her attentions away from her explorer groom (Lance Fuller) to The Beast – his gorilla – in director Adrian Weiss’s incoherent, awesomely terrible 1958 chiller. Under hypnosis, she […]

Aug, 22

Tarzan **** (1999, voices of Tony Goldwyn, Alex D Linz, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Rosie O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 2669

Directed by Chris Buck and Kevin Lima, the 1999 Tarzan is Walt Disney’s last box office triumph of its renaissance period before its decline in the early 2000s. Phil Collins won an Oscar and a Golden Globe […]

Jul, 05

Mighty Joe Young *** (1949, Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 1745

In director Ernest B Schoedsack and producer Merian C Cooper’s 1949 fantasy adventure, Mighty Joe Young the gorilla is snatched from the African jungle to work in a Hollywood nightclub, holding up a piano. At […]

Oct, 05

Mighty Joe Young *** (1998, Bill Paxton, Charlize Theron) – Classic Movie Review 1744

Poor old gorilla! – this time he’s snatched from the jungle to live in a California zoo, run by kindly keeper David Paymer. He goes rampaging in LA a bit – causing havoc on Hollywood […]

Oct, 05

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