Bride of the Gorilla (1951)

[Scott]

BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (1951) - Starring Raymond Burr, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., and even Woody Strode. The story of the film is about a guy who wants his bosses wife and murders him to get her. A jungle witch cast a spell on Burr using the juice from an evil tree. This is actually a good film as I really enjoyed it. If you haven't seen it check it out.

[Gerry]

Another great Herman Cohen film--his first Horror movie in fact. (and another opportunity for me to shamelessly plug my Cohen site).

<http://www.hermancohen.com/bridegorilla/index.html>

Tom Weaver's Interview with Cohen on the movie is fascinating reading:

<http://www.hermancohen.com/interviews/interviews-cohen1.html>

[Scott]

I really like your page Gerry. A very nice tribute. Again some of my favorite Cohen films are I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTIEN, HORRORS OF  THE BLACK MUSEUM, I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF, and now BRIDE OF THE GORILLA.

Didn't like BELA LUGOSI MEET THE BROOKLYN GORILLA which I  saw last week.



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[lester1/2jr]

Barabara payton had a crazy life.  I read an insane article about her rise and fall once.  She was alright.

[Scott]

What was interesting about this film is that it all seem to be shot on a Hollywood set including the jungle and Raymond Burr never is shown as a gorilla, but only his hands change. The rest is mainly branches in the jungle moving. The film also has good atmophere. Check it out.