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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">  <p>Paris 1845: Pierre (Leon Waycoff) & Camille (Sidney Fox) visit the gorilla-show of doctor Mirakle (Bela Lugosi) at a carnival, where Pierre is almost strangled by the gorilla (Charles Gemora), while Camille catches the eye of the Doctor.</p> <p>What nobody knows though is that the Doctor is collecting women at night & has the strange idea of reversing evolution & turning them back into gorillas by injecting them gorilla blood - with the result that these women regularly die & soon everybody suspects a run-of.-the-mill serial killer - but not so Pierre, a medical student who has developed an almost unhealthy interest in the case ... & soon discovers gorilla blood in the women's veins. & he only knows one man with a gorilla, Mirakle, who by the way is desperately trying to get a date with his girlfriend. & then Pierre finds out that Mirakle doesn't leave town with the rest of his carnival but puts up camp in an abandoned house with his gorilla ...</p> <p>Eventually, Mirakle & his ape not only kidnap Camille & kill her mother but also manage to put the blame on Pierre ... & he is hard-pressed to convince everyone to accompany him to Mirakle's house instead, where Mirakle is already preparing to give Camille her a gorilla blood infusion ... when his own ape objects, kills his master & drags the girl off over the Paris rooftops. Only when he puts the girl down for a while to make menacing gestures towards his pursuers does Pierre manage to shoot him ...</p> <p> </p> <p><b>Murders in the Rue Morgue</b> has little to do with Edgar Allan Poe's classic, groundbreaking detective tale (but stay comparatively fatihful to its source considering <i>Universal</i>'s later Poe adaptations <b><a href="blackcat(1934).shtml">The Black Cat</a> </b>& <b>The Raven</b>, which isn't saying much). Instead the audience is presented with a pulp tale about mad scientists, gorillas & Paris in the fog (London would probably have been more appropriate, actually). It is silly alright, but if you can see past that, it's also a beautifully photographed, atmospheric film, done in wonderfully artificial Paris sets, & Bela Lugosi, naturally, is great.</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2005"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>