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I could only name two so far, A*P*E and The mighty Gorga.

Here is a clip from each movie
Take a deep breath (Turst me, you'll need it!)

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk3jUxjfKKg

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xil2YKJpOWE

The Mighty Peking Man is craptacular!

Wow, I was holding a straight face till he threw the egg at the mother. That's to funny.  Or when the ape walks over that cow figure. :bouncegiggle:

The Erotic Witch Project

anyone whose seen this will know which bit I mean

I can recall a few involving not necessarily Gorillas but simians of some sort such as The Ape and The Apeman.  I've always thought simians=funny no matter what they're involved in. 

Dang, you beat me to it.  He's also in the sequel.


Oh, and there's also Kinky Kong, which I haven't seen yet.

King Kong (2005).  'Nuff said.

A genereal rule of thumb is if a movie features a guy in a gorilla suit, it's probably a b-movie.

Even if that guy is Rick Baker.  :smile:

Yeah, and if you look closely, when the dinosaur lifts up his head when he looks at Gorga, you can see the bottom rim of the head.

Actually there's numerous movies from the 1930s, 40s and 50s featuring guys in gorilla suits. The Ritz Brothers, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and the Bowery Boys all dealt with them.

me and my friend hired it out for the night - possibly expecting something half-way decent (!), so once we got past the fact of how terrible it was, when the gorilla scene came we were literally rolling on the floor almost crying. havent seen the sequel, lol. maybe one day... maybe not.  :teddyr:

Ah, yes.

Back in the day, any moderately eccentric scientist worth his salt kept a killer gorilla in a tiny cage in his lab.

I think Lugosi's THE APE MAN is the CITIZEN KANE of guys in a gorilla suit movies.

(http://www.missinglinkclassichorror.co.uk/ape5.jpg)

Hmmm...lotsa good stuf covered here! Lemme see...
.WHITE PONGO-(PRC,1945) If it's by PRC...you know it's a quality(?) picture (hehehe)
.WHITE GORILLA (1947) An ape gets thrown out of his tribe for being the wrong color....most of this mess is made up of an old silent serial with narration added.
.The JUNGLE WOMAN series of films of the 40's by Universal all had cool mad doctors (John Carridine, J.Carrol Naish,and Otto(DRACULA'S DAUGHTER) Krueger,and one even featured Rondo Hatton! All feature an ape being changed into a woman,and versa visa!
.SCHLOCK-aka the BANANA MONSTER (1972).Director John Landis's first movie...and he plays an ape in a suit done by then rookie Rick Baker! Forry Ackerman has a bit in it too!
Oh yeah...BELA LUGOSI meets a BROOKLYN GORILLA.....

         [youtube=425,350] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHp11QhJcHs....how embarrasing... :lookingup:

Didn't they make White Gorilla just so they could reuse the costume from White Pongo?  I remember hearing that a few years ago.  I have the buget DVD of White Pongo, but haven't picked up White Gorilla.

Definitely find a copy of this one!

WHITE PONGO is fun, but THE WHITE GORILLA is truly hilarious!

Like RC said, it's padded out with lots of footage from some silent jungle epic. Multi-talented Ray "Crash" Corrigan plays the human lead and the white gorilla! It seems being rejected by his black brothers has caused the white gorilla to turn into a spiteful bully. He beats the crap out of everything in his path, steals native children, and just generally has a bad attitude.

It's pretty funny watching the really bonehead attempts to mix the new footage with the old stuff. There is a impressively wild cult ceremony in a cave (from the old footage, of course) that ends badly for everyone. There's also a chubby jungle boy who rides around on a real elephant's trunk (from the old footage) and some impressive acrobatics from the hero (from the old footage). The new footage is mostly people standing around and Corrigan and a guy in the black gorilla suit running around, fighting, and throwing sticks at each other.

There is also:

Konga
The Beast That Killed Women
Queen Kong
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Phantom of the Rue Morgue

I'm not sure...but in the wonderful world of z movies...I wouldn't be surprized!

Bride of the Gorilla (Starring Raymond Burr!)
The Gorilla (Ritz Brothers and Lugosi!)
The Ape (Karloff)
Konga (Michael Gough)

The Mighty Gorga was mentioned but not One Million AC/DC?  Tsk tsk.  Someone is blocking out the horrible "comedic" gorilla in that fine flick.   :wink:

Has anyone mentioned the following yet. .

Playmate of the Apes (or whatever it was called)
Kinky Kong (haven't seen it but the title seems suggestive)

And what about that Hollywood flick about the albino gorilla's guarding diamonds, or whatever the heck it was?  That was pretty awful.

"Congo."  Man, that movie was awful.  With a complete misuse of Bruce Campbell to boot.

"Amy - hungry - Amy - banana - bad - gorilla - Amy - hide"  ARRGGGHHH!

Then again, one my favorite insults was created by "KoKo the Gorilla", referring to one of her handlers:

"DIRTY-TOILET-DEVIL"

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 This really could go on forever!!!!  :bouncegiggle:

NIGHT of the BLOODY APES has a gorilla ,which is used to turn a mad doctors son into a monster apeman...who fights a female wrestler! A really sleazy movie...I got a copy from SWV...

                     [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQVFQsf41e8



Serials also featured at least one ape...!!!

                         [youtube=425,350] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgX-am40OAc

And weird stuff like this...!

      [youtube=425,350] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA88AQzVmB0

What about the gorilla cameo on Steve Martin's THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS?

Jerry Warrens "classic" Teenage Zombies is one with a guy in a gorilla suit. Retromedia's recent release of King Kung Foo also features one. King of Kong Island has robo-gorrilas in it. Star Pilot has alirn gorilla things in it.  King Kong Escapes! has a Gorilla in it. Hillbillys in a Haunted House has a gorilla in it. And the Planet of the Apes clone title "Time of the Apes" has apes in it (close enough).

How about the gorilla in Trading Places and what happens to the guy in the gorilla suit?  :buggedout: :teddyr:

How could we have gone this far without mentioning the unforgettable Ro-Man of ROBOT MONSTER? :buggedout:

My favorite would have to be Flash Gordon:
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A few more ... pardon any repeats ...

Jungle Girl (1941)
Perils of the Jungle (1953)
White Goddess (1953)
The Beast That Killed Women (1965)
Ingagi (1931)
Son of Ingagi (1940)
The King of the Kongo (1929)
Bum Voyage (1934)
Trader Hornee (1970)
Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)
The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Forbidden Jungle (1950)

GORILLA AT LARGE (1954)
The three Universal 'Paula the Ape Woman' films:
CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN (1943)
JUNGLE CAPTIVE (1944)
UH... AND THE OTHER ONE (1945)

Coming Soon on DVD! (or not  :smile:)

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Happy Independence Day to all in the USA! 

Pushing the envelope a bit, howzabout...

ROBOT MONSTER (1953) ...?  :lookingup: (oops, Jase just mentioned this one!)
TROG (1970) ... ?   :twirl:
GROOVE TUBE (1974)...?  :teddyr:

I believe the box for the dvd's is wrong! According to Famous Monsters #81,and cross refrenced with the Psychotronic Encyclopidea of Film:

!st:CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN (1943) stars John Carridine,Evelyn Ankers,and Ray 'Crash" Corrigan who is turned into Aquanetta.Milburn (Doc from GUNSMOKE!) Stone,also stars.

2nd:JUNGLE WOMAN(1944) Aquanetta returns,along with Evelyn Ankers.  and Milburn Stone. J. Carrol Naish is the mad doc this time.

3rd: JUNGLE CAPTIVE (1945) Has Otto Kruger as the mad doc,Rondo Hatton as Moloch(the box says comedy star...??? HUH???),and Vicky  Lane as Paula Dupree,the Ape Woman. (whew...! I'm reading this and even I'm getting confused!)

 And WHY is Sammy ( BELA LUGOSI meets a BROOKLYN GORILLA ) on the back of the box?

  Side note: the Wolfman type makeup was done by none other than Jack Pierce,the makeup artist who gave us the original FRANKENSTIEN, MUMMY,WOLFMAN,and many more great makeup jobs...including the monkeys in the WIZARD of OZ!!!

 Hate to nitpick...but corporate blurb writers need to get their history straight,or else nerds like me p**s and moan about  it!

 :teddyr:

Actually that box set is a joke, created by someone at the 'Classic Horror' board.
'Monster Kid' humor!

If you read the back closely, among other things, it mentions under the SPECIAL FEATURES these discs would make good Frisbees for your dog.

It's kinda hard to read, though. I thought this set was for real when I first saw it, too.  :bouncegiggle:

P.S.

I don't know if you've ever seen the Classic Horror Film Board, but it's pretty cool!

http://p075.ezboard.com/Classic-Horror-Film-Board/bmonsterkidclassichorrorforum (http://p075.ezboard.com/Classic-Horror-Film-Board/bmonsterkidclassichorrorforum)  :cheers:

I must have joined them long ago in my drunken days,as it says I have an account...but I'll be damned if I remember...it says I am "ringrong'.  Jeez...I was a boozer! :drink:

Actually I had an account with them and didn't realize it. And I don't even drink. Anyways, I've begun posting over there a little too. Helps there's so many old Scifilm regulars over there.

Yeah, he's like a gorilla with a TV on his head!   :bouncegiggle:

Hi Jase,
It seems the registration process is a bit involved?  I started, but skipped it for the moment, I get leery when they not only have long "Terms and Condiitons" but also a long "Privacy Policy" which immediately insists they will never sell your personal info...what do you think?

Ozzymandias speaks: I have to mention The Monster Walks. One of a handful of "gorilla-in-the-old-dark-house" pieces of boredom.  The old rich, evolutionist uncle's relatives are being attacked by a hairy arm and everyone suspects the pet monkey in the basement. Notable for Mischa Auer's passable Bela Lugosi imitation and the most politically incorrect ending ever.  Explaining evolution to Willie Best is just asking for trouble.

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

I haven't had any trouble with them allhallowsday. I believe I might have registered there to vote on the Rondo Hatton Awards they give out.  Think you do have to make sure you select to not have any advertising sent to you, etc..

Ahh, you beat me to it.  I must say that has some delightful work by John Carradine in it.  Has anyone mentioned Trading Places yet?  Not strictly a bad movie, but boy have I watched it too many times.

I actually LIKE "Bride of The Gorilla", with gay old Raymond Burr --
It actually has moments of real psychological tension/the old "is it all in his MIND, or NOT?" tale done not-so-bad for what was probably a dozen-dollar budget.
They don't play it for laughs at all, and though you can easily laugh at the cheesy sets, if you think of it as a play more than a film, it can really work.
peter gorilla/denny AAARRRHH!!

ESPECIALLY if that guy is Rick Baker, who gave us the FX for It's Alive! among other film delicacies.

               Rick Baker again---->    Octaman!                                               
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j6xhFdDxDI

the clip from The Mighty Gorga with the Gorilla fighting the Dinosaur was used in Kinky Kong, a horrible soft-core film. it's very random.

also, the actress in The Mighty Gorga is the same chick who was in She Devils on Wheels, which is an awesome movie.

-P

There was a policeman so thin
Who wanted to run us all in.
With a hullabaloo,
He ran us all through,
Without even breaking the skin!
Whitey-Official 'Man Eaters' Poet Laureate

Yes, I love that movie and yes, I have this memorized.  :thumbup:

That is pretty good... when I first saw 'the lethargy collection' I couldn't help but laugh :)