Bride of the Gorilla

Bride of the Gorilla (1951)

  • 21% of users liked it
    (202 ratings)

This silly, stagebound but entertaining little monster-mash from Universal horror writer/director Curt Siodmak stars burly Raymond Burr as a steward on a rubber plantation whose romantic tryst with the boss' wife (Barbara Payton) eventually leads to the employer's murder. When one of the… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Oct 1, 1951 Wide
American Pop Classics

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    ...a magical film where the magic just didn't work.

  • Staci Layne Wilson, StaciWilson.com

    Pure camp, a moral, and Raymond Burr... how can you go wrong?

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Bruce B


    Not a bad movie for being filmed in 1951. After all it has Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, and Ironside), the beautiful Barbara Payton, and Lon Chaney. It was a change seing Chaney playing the simple part as a Police Commisner. After Burr helps his former Employer die, a jungle witch… More

  • Greg S


    A rubber-plantation manager (an young and surprisingly amoral Raymond Burr) lusts after the wife of his employer: murder, black magic, guilt and a strange creature terrorizing the jungle follow. Given the silly premise and sillier title, this is actually a fairly well-scripted and… More

  • Anthony V


    A lame rip off of the Wolfman.

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