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The Gorilla Man
USA 1943
produced by William Jacobs for Warner Brothers
directed by D. Ross Lederman
starring John Loder, Ruth Ford, Marian Hall, Richard Fraser, Paul Cavanagh, Lumsden Hare, John Abbott, Mary Field, Rex Williams, Joan Winfield, Charles Irwin, Peggy Carson, Walter Tetley, Creighton Hale, Frank Mayo, Gordon B. Clarke, Art Foster, Olaf Hytten, Fred Kelsey, Vera Lewis, Lottie Williams, Reginald Sheffield (voice)
written by Anthony Coldeway, music by William Lava
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The UK in World War II: Captain Killian (John Loder) holds vital
information about the Nazi invasion - but he's also critically wounded on
the battletield, so much so that right upon his arrival on British soil
he's shipped right off to a sanitarium, a sanitarium run by Nazi
sympathizer Dr. Dorn (Paul Cavanagh). And the good doctor is a clever man,
as he freely admits to Killian to divulge the information to his superior,
General Devon (Lumsden Hare), only to then put the value of the
information into question. But the coup de grace is when Killian is
off to express his condolences to the widow (Joan Winfield) of one of his
men, he has that woman mudered by his sidekick, psychokiller Dr. Ferris
(John Abbott), putting all the blame on Killian in the process. So
suddenly, instead of being the hero of the nation, Killian is a wanted
man, even more so when Ferris also kills one of General Devon's daughters
(Ruth Ford), with the blame directing right to Killian of course. Killian
has only two allies, one being nurse Kruger (Mary Field), a woman forced
to do Dorn's bidding, the other the general's other daughter, Pat (Marian
Hall), the only person who really believes in his innocence - so much so
that she hides him in a closet when her father has an all important
meeting - right when Ferris kills nurse Kruger to put one more murder on
Killian's shoulders, but that's the crime that ultimately backfires and
puts everything right again ... Ok, despite the title, there
isn't a gorilla in this movie, much less a man turned into one, it only
refers to the film's lead character's ability to ... climb I guess, even
though gorillas aren't known to be pretty good climbers. That said, misled
horror fans won't be totally disappointed by the movie as it does feature
a pretty disturbing psycho killer, and John Abbott sure brings him across
just right. But all that said, as a whole this is just a piece of
far-fetched war propaganda, and while certainly not the worst of its kind,
it's also not a very memorable film. But at least ok genre entertainment.
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